Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last May, with the mosque still only half finished, the National Production Authority clamped controls on materials for religious structures. Washington's mosque was short 40.5 tons of steel for the roof and a 150-ft. minaret. NPA refused to allocate more steel for 1951's last quarter. So Hassan Hosny, Egyptian embassy third secretary and secretary general of the Mosque Foundation, appealed to the State Department...
After the show, drinking and dancing until midnight are in order. For nice people there are the Shelton Roof for dancing, and the Copley-Plaza's Oval Room for drinking. The Latin Quarter features Lena Horne, while any college man with enough drinks in him gives the performance at the Vendome's Fife and Drum Room...
...Fourposter (by Jan de Hartog; produced by The Playwrights' Company) is a play with only two characters that slices up 30-odd years of marriage under the same roof into six period-costumed, eminently conjugal little playlets. There is the embarrassment of the wedding night, the excitement over the first baby, the crisis over the other woman, the husband in a dither about their teen-age son, the wife in the dumps after their daughter's wedding, the sale of the house and moving away...
...hustling bundle of energy who sometimes memorizes bits of the dictionary while running around the roof of his office building to keep in condition, Louis Marx carries a pocketful of toys to give friends. He hobnobs with Army brass (at war's end he toured the German toy industry at the request of General Eisenhower), gets a kick out of sending his latest gadgets to such bigwigs as George Marshall, a longtime friend. Says Retailer Bernard Gimbel of Marx: "He has a touch of genius...
Bechet is, of course, the whole show. He takes the standard classics-"Muskrat Ramble," "That's Aplenty," "Tin Roof Blues," etc.-and gets something different out of each of them. I have heard him play "High Society" at least five times, once for almost twenty minutes, and never did he repeat or borrow from any source other than his limitless creative inspiration. And he takes such surprising tunes as "Casey Jones" and turns them into jazz classics...