Word: orchid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story concerns a young prince, disconsolate over the death of a vivid, orchid-eating ballerina. He lives on a vast French estate that has reproduced the world of inns and nightclubs and ice-cream wagons that were part of his romance. Into this world the prince's wacky, loving duchess aunt brings a young milliner who greatly resembles the ballerina. The aunt hopes that her nephew will fall in love once more. At first he resents and snubs the girl, while she surmises that he has never really loved the dancer. But soon all goes spinningly...
...cheering wildly at basketball games, and listening with hushed attention to speeches by black-turbaned, silk-robed village scholars. Throughout the country citizens were urged to pay even more attention to the ancient Confucian code of ethics. Heads of families were told to shun frivolous entertainments (chess games and orchid exhibitions are permissible), and soldiers were warned that nightclubs and cabarets are morally off-limits to them. Girls were forbidden to wear tight blue jeans. Everyone was exhorted to seek more knowledge, aspire to greater integrity...
...Orchid-Bedecked. Last week as Charlie Wilson said his goodbyes, Washington realized something else: it was saying goodbye to a distinguished Defense Secretary. President Eisenhower wrote a warm "Dear Charlie" letter, took time out from the Little Rock crisis to show up briefly at a black-tie dinner given in Wilson's honor by Secretary Dulles. The three service Secretaries and Chiefs of the Air Force, Navy, Army and Marine Corps stood up beside Charlie at Fort Myer as jet bombers and fighters roared by in an honorary flyover. And-perhaps in the most meaningful salute of all-newsmen...
...Brown's Hotel. M-G-M Records liked her throaty, sob-ridden voice, changed her name and signed her up. Her first two singles-Freddy and Didn't I Love You Enough? are currently being followed by a bouncy number, Eighteen, and a sad-toned ballad Faded Orchid, which might go over with what the industry calls the "girdle...
Cultivated like a hothouse orchid by Mother, Joanne was discovered by a smart young pressagent named Ted Howard. In Joanne, he saw another Brenda Frazier, fabled (later fate-buffeted) glamor debutante of the '30s. He taught Joanne to mingle with the right people in the right places-the Stork Club, El Morocco ,"21." She was a LIFE cover girl; the tabloids called her "the 1948 season's golden girl." Soon all the dreams came true: Joanne became engaged (after four proposals) to lanky British Millionheir Sportsman Robert Sweeny, 37, California-born wartime R.A.F. hero, onetime (1937) British amateur...