Word: peaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stable, was looking for a young unvarnished voice to go with a young unvarnished song called What's It Like in Paree? ("Is the air champagne at night?/ Is it love's domain at night?"). Next thing she knew, Barbara was taking signals behind the mike. Her peach-fuzz voice suggests a girl who has not quite got the word about Things as yet, but is gratifyingly eager to learn. Columbia has changed Barbara's name on the record from Eichbauer to Manners, and is keeping her busy at her receptionist's desk while it awaits...
...obsessed by a woman. Matthew Ligne is about to turn the dread corner of 40 into middle age, accompanied by his faithful ulcer, which bites so vigorously at the wrong moments that it almost assumes the lifelikeness of a pet. Like careful Prufrock ("Do I dare to eat a peach?"), he has heard the mermaids singing each to each. The particular blonde mermaid who obsesses him is a girl only glimpsed behind a window. For Matthew Ligne spends most of his time observing the creatures-married couples, tree surgeons, enterprising alley cats-in the little closed-in world...
...Peach Buds & Flu. In Banker Christie's Phoenix, spring had come three weeks early, bringing the fragrance of orange blossoms. The talk of the town was the upcoming Junior Chamber of Commerce rodeo, and the talk of the Junior C. of C. was the enterprise of Bright Young Man Lee Ackerman and his aide, Chuck Mueller, who are so convinced of the future growth of Phoenix that they are buying and selling nearby desert acreage that only a jack rabbit could call home...
Atlanta fretted about the dying winter's snowy last fling, which nipped peach buds and forsythia blooms brought forth early by a false spring. Wichita grumbled about its flurry of nonfatal but highly uncomfortable flu. Miami complained of nagging rain-but 23,026 racing fans braved it on Gulfstream Park's opening day to bet $1,863,447. Texas rejoiced in the recent soaking rains that brightened parched fields with blankets of green and stirred hopes that the seven-year drought might be ending at last...
...official role of chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges casually asked President Eisenhower if he would like to lunch with the committee some day on Capitol Hill. "Sure-today," said Ike briskly, leaving Styles Bridges to rummage up sirloin steaks, peach-and-cottage-cheese salad, chocolate and vanilla ice cream, Jell-O and coffee for 40 guests, purring that a Republican President had not lunched informally with Republican Senators on the Hill like this for more than 25 years. Obviously the President had something important on his mind, thought the Senators...