Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ignominious military disaster since the burning of the White House in 1814, hired the man who planned it all to lend his expertise, and even enlisted the U.S. Defense Department's help in filming it. Then, to launch their $25 million epic, Tora! Torn! Tora!, a recapitulation of Pearl Harbor (see CINEMA), the producers held a premiere last week in Washington. Among the guests of honor: Technical Adviser Minoru Genda, the retired Japanese general who planned the attack, and Mitsuo Fuchida, the pilot who led it. Even at a remove of nearly 30 years, there seemed an almost stupefying...
...Last Wednesday, with its 2,718th performance, Hello, Dolly! passed My Fair Lady's record as the longest-running musical on Broadway. Way back on Jan. 6, 1964, Carol Channing opened the show. After nine months, Ginger Rogers took over; then came Martha Raye, Betty Grable, Pearl Bailey (and an all-black cast), Phyllis Diller, and now Ethel Merman, who has extended her contract to Dec. 26, 1970. Considering Dolly's longevity, the question arises, who's next? Producer David Merrick has it figured out. "Liberace. And we can call it Hello, Bruce!" He was not entirely...
...reduced the number of teaching and supervisory positions, costing many black educators their jobs or senior status. Columbia and Madison County, Miss., summarily fired 24 black teachers at the end of the last school year; Greenville reshuffled 21 athletic coaches when it desegregated its system. One black teacher in Pearl, Miss., who is trained in English and Spanish has been assigned to teach home economics in a newly unified system. Unequipped for the job, she expects to be fired for incompetence...
...Gave You Pearl Harbor, Delia Femina...
...From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor, Della Femina...