Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West love feast that surrounds Flower Drum Song is no accident, for Rodgers and Hammerstein themselves have reached an almost Oriental serenity in an otherwise hectic and often squalid business. As much as any of their Chinese characters, R. & H. have family feeling. Since they have a permanent production outfit (unlike most other theater men, who fold up after each show), they have given employment to generations of performers. Example: one of Flower Drum's brightest young dancers, Patrick Adiarte, 15, started at eight as one of the younger children in The King and I, kept on playing...
...Nazis, and most of them killed. Tracked down in France by Author Fuller, the mysterious Gilbert denied he had ever been a German agent, although admitting he had contacts with the Nazis. Gilbert hinted that, actually, he had also been working for another British cloak-and-dagger outfit and that the "radio game" was continued even when London knew the Germans were running it, because it was important to "keep the Germans occupied, to distract their attention...
Wilbur ("Weeb") Ewbank, Miami '28, molded the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League into a devastating outfit that waltzed away with the league's Western Division title...
...money to buy a $40,000 house in Mountainside, N.J. for his wife and two small daughters. A month ago Tough Guy Dugan, 52, turned up in Chester. His mission: switching White's workers from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to a shadowy, thug-ridden outfit called the Interstate Industrial Union. Last week, after White fired a few employees who were collaborating with Dugan. Intruder Dugan set up a picket line outside the plant...
Producer of the show: Holiday on Ice Inc., a Minneapolis outfit which has four companies touring all over the world (one in the U.S.). Indians, who had never seen a major ice show in their country before, fell for it like novices on their first pair of single-runners. Even the anti-U.S. Shanker's Weekly called it "stupendous," argued that "good American show business is worth more than guns and butter." Delhi's citizens jammed the 8,000-seat theater nightly. Among the spectators: Prime Minister Nehru...