Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tourist got off a plane in Port-au-Prince, told immigration officials he was Miles Gaham, 35, a dentist from Omaha. The Haitians looked right past his white cap, tight woolen shirt, dark glasses and absurd phony mustache, said: "Welcome, Marlon Brando." The actor had brought along a pretty Eurasian girl, who said her name was Timy Van Nga; occupation: student. In a U-drive-it Volkswagen, the two demonstrated the close relationship between love and Haiti, thrill-riding the island's mountain curves, dancing to voodoo drums at the nightclub Bacoulou. By week's end, when...
Threatened with expulsion from Nebraska's Catholic Duchesne College unless she sticks to the no-bathing-suit ban, blonde Mary Jean Belitz, 18, last week gave up her Miss Omaha title. To Mary Jean's mother, the ban was bewildering: her pert (36-24-36) daughter had often appeared in the briefest drum-majorette costumes without causing church disfavor...
...added only 6,560 new members, has made little or no effort to plaster the gaping holes in its ranks, e.g., such traditional holdouts as the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal, the Detroit News, the Kansas City (Mo.) Star, the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Omaha World-Herald. "We won't come through Omaha," says Guild Executive Vice President William J. Farson, "until someone asks us." Of some 1,750 U.S. dailies, the Guild has contracts with only 176, is so unambitious an explorer of virgin territory that organizing new locals is last on its priority...
After 59 years, eleven Broadway musicals and 31 movies, twinkle-toed Hoofer Fred Astaire published his highly informal, do-it-yourself autobiography titled (on Noel Coward's suggestion) Steps in Time (Harper; $4.95). More a theatrical log than a self-portrait, the book brings Astaire from his Omaha boyhood (papa was a brewer of Austrian descent) to the pinnacle of popular dancing, a position he has enjoyed for half his life. Astaire fans will be elated to hear that the end of his career is nowhere in sight. Writes the mellowing top-hatter: "What is this age bit that...
...growth of major cities on the West Coast encouraged packers and farmers to set up markets at Denver, Kansas City, Omaha and other points closer home. At the same time, the spread of new highways and the upsurge of the trucking industry offset Chicago's advantage as a rail center. Livestock production spread east and south. In World War II, rationing and price control, strictly enforced in Chicago, encouraged behind-the-barn slaughter throughout the farm belt. Once broken of the habit of shipping to Chicago, many farmers never went back. By 1954 there were 2,367 separate packing...