Word: panda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thought you might be interested to know that while I was matriculating, which was toward the end of the depression, my roommates and I had as a pet a fullgrown panda named George. The summer before my final year at Harvard my father had brought her back with him from a trip to Tibet. I prevailed upon him to allow me to take the animal to school and keep her there, he being ignorant of the prohibition against having pets in the rooms. My roommates were of course delighted with George, and all went splendidly for almost a month...
During a lunch break on the Hollywood set of Critics' Choice, Leading Man Bob Hope headed into a banquet room and wound up with a surprise party. For his 59th birthday, co-workers gave him a $40 stuffed panda, a cake ablaze with candles, and a good-humored ribbing written by his own gagmen and delivered by Co-Star Lucille Ball. "I don't know just how old Bob is," said the sprightly redhead, "but he's closer to medicare than most Republicans." Added Lucy, recalling Hope's salad days: "He was handsome then-big chest...
...Hugh ("Chic Rosie") Chisholm. Toots Shor made a ground swell on the dance floor. The usual duchesses were there (Argyll, Westminster), the usual film stars (Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda), the usual sporty financiers (Serge Semenenko, Huntington Hartford). The room where Humphrey Bogart once fought a woman over a toy panda was awash with unfiltered nostalgia, as everyone had a last fond sit on the zebra-stripe upholstery. Beaming throughout was John Perona, El Morocco's owner, and Journal-American Society Columnist "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Igor Cassini) pronounced the eulogy, quoting Lucius Beebe: "El Morocco and Perona are the products...