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Belafonte. "The audience just accepted Millard and me. He had his shirt and I had mine." Marguerite Belafonte remembers the chain-"the Vanguard, the Blue Angel, the Black Orchid in Chicago, the Chase Hotel in St. Louis-and straight to the sky." Belafonte got parts in John Murray Anderson's Almanac on Broadway and in the movie Carmen Jones. Then one RCA Victor album-Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean-transformed Belafonte from a nightclub headliner into an international show-business celebrity...
...same room. Last week, as Fidel Castro's triumphant procession passed within view of her office, she emerged for her first look at the rebel chieftain. Castro had already paid his respects to her; last November he sent a runner 600 miles with a mountain orchid for the Timeswoman in Havana. Placid and permanent in Cuba's impermanent atmosphere, R. Hart Phillips will be on good terms with Castro's regime. And, chances are, she will be on equally good terms with the regime that follows Castro...
...Recently I reread your March 24 cover story, "The Recession-How Deep? How Long?", and you deserve an orchid for 20/20 foresight. The stockmarket's action in the last seven months, rising almost 100 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average, has justified your cover captioned "Wall Street Bull: Spring, 1958." Forecasted pickups have likewise occurred in housing, steel and autos-to mention just a few indices -and you are to be commended for your courage in publishing this article when the recession was close to rock bottom. JULIUS M. WESTHEIMER Baltimore...
...Jonathan Harshman Winters III, 32, longtime vagrant on radio, TV and in nightclubs, easily one of the funniest comedians in the business, is hardly an idiot, even though his humor springs out of and depends on idiocy. Last week Winters displayed his loony magic in Chicago's Black Orchid nightclub, racing hysterically through his varied roles-from a harassed father scared of his own kids, to the whole cast of a jail break complete with the rataplan of a Tommy gun, produced by his elastic larynx. "As long as someone laughs," says a friend, "Johnny is on. And someone...
...than a dozen cosmetic houses rushed to put it in high-priced creams, soaps, even lipsticks. (France's house of Orlane, reasoning that the bees got their jelly from flowers, went one better and put on the U.S. market a cream "created from the precious pollen of the orchid...