Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Lieut. Commander Arnheiter took command of the U.S.S. Vance in Pearl Harbor shortly before Christmas 1965, he found the aging radar-picket destroyer "literally crawling with cockroaches," her bridge and ladders mottled with "coffee spillage," her forecastle the scene of frequent fistfights in which nonrated men "routinely intimidated, threatened and physically struck" their superior petty officers...
...Pearl Bailey is back and Dolly has got her. Or vice versa. Either way the jaunty matchmaker from Yonkers and the sly, ironic, purring Pearl suit each other perfectly. Although Hello, Dolly...
...Pearl has help of a high order-an exuberant cast of dancers that prances up a tropical storm with Gower Champion's expert choreography. Cab Calloway is first-rate as the well-heeled hay and feed man for whom Dolly Levi sets her ostrich plumes; the only pity is that he has so little...
...mother, Mavis Pearl, straightened him out right quick. "Stop talking like a fool," she said...
...folks back in Sylacauga don't much cotton to that kind of talk, including Mavis Pearl. "I get tickled at her sometimes," says Nabors. "She has more money to spend than she ever had in her life, and you know what she does with it? Puts it in the bank in my name-just in case...