Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a bucket on her head to spare her parents the pain of her songs. After she went to bed, she would duck under her covers and go on singing. When her father refused to buy her a piano, she pasted a pattern of paper keys on the dining-room table and practiced anyway...
Whenever there was something special like sweets in the house, it was offered first to the dead in the temple in "God's Room." "We have to leave it with them one day, then we could have it," Miyoshi says. But the hungry girl could not wait a whole day knowing that there was candy in God's Room. She would succumb to temptation and open the temple, despite her fear of ancestral punishment. "I prayed: I have to have this. I got to have this candy. I'm going to take this candy, so please...
...Youngest of a fair-sized Japanese-American family (a brother twelve years older, and two sisters, eight and ten years older), "Chiby" (Squirt) Suzuki was a loner from the start-a kid who seemed to figure she was expected to take care of herself. She went to a two-room schoolhouse, rode horses bareback, learned to swim in irrigation canals on her father's 100-acre farm, and talked Spanish to the Mexican peach pickers. But it was not much fun. At least, looking back on her childhood, Chiby Suzuki insists: "I could hardly wait to grow...
...role of Sammy Fong, he was quickly replaced by a more experienced stage veteran, Larry Blyden. A sentimental song was cut, and Blyden's part was beefed up; Hammerstein spent two days writing the lyrics of a new song, and Rodgers retired to the Shubert Theater ladies' room (which during rehearsals was equipped with a piano) and wrote the music in less than six hours. (His record: South Pacific's Bali Ha'i, which he wrote in five minutes over after-dinner coffee in a crowded room.) Result of the Boston change: Don't Marry...
...history. A full force of newsmen under Managing Editor Turner Catledge and Assistant M.E. Theodore M. Bernstein went imperturbably through the task of putting out a paper every day, writing copy and headlines, dummying the pages and then sending the work to the morgue instead of the composing room. When the strike is over, the Times will publish a condensed edition bringing history up to date with two pages of news for each day it did not publish. The Times even had a reporter covering the strike, obligingly set up a news desk to feed stories to New York...