Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There's no need 40 rely on that overworked standby--the pearl. Be original! Be sporting! Why not amble into a sporting goods store and deck your ears with a realistic fish spinner, in sparkling cubist colors--guaranteed to get any date to bite...
...never believe anything until it happens," says Mattiwilda Dobbs. But she is already scheduled to sing the big coloratura role in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos at the Glyndebourne Festival next summer. Her records of Mozart's Zaide (Poly-music) and Bizet's Pearl Fishers (Renaissance) are winning top notices. Impresario Sol Hurok, who is bringing her back to the U.S. next season, has his eye fixed on the Metropolitan for Mattiwilda...
...When Pearl Harbor cut the U.S. off from Malaya's natural rubber, only the Government was big enough to rear the $700 million, 51-plant synthetic industry. But getting the Government out was not so easy as getting it in. Harry Truman could not get private companies to bid anything approaching a fair value for the plants. The reason was that natural rubber had come back, was cheap (25? a lb.), and was so superior to most synthetics that 12 of the Government's remaining 29 plants were shut down...
...mustached Pop Thornton is now 48 years old. He enlisted in the cavalry in 1927, began breaking Army mounts, during his first year broke all his toes, both feet and one knee. In 1937, having been demoted several times, Pop left the Army but re-enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor. During the Battle of the Bulge, he won a Bronze Star for charging a house full of Germans, capturing 14. He finished the war at a sort of halfway stage-as a corporal...
...more support for KEEP, and half his time in Japan supervising it. He has already spent half his lifetime there. A teacher of economics at St. Paul's until 1941, he refused to leave Japan on the eve of World War II, and was taken into custody after Pearl Harbor. Repatriated on the exchange ship Gripsholm in 1942 he joined the U.S. Army and eventually served as a lieutenant colonel on MacArthur's G-2 staff. While never a formally constituted missionary, he knows the Japanese as few missionaries do. He has realized that the Japanese, a naturally...