Word: watermelon
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...kitchen the day before. Guards, unarmed, strolled about in costumes too, but had nothing to worry about: convicts were on their honor. Near by, the African prisoners swung into a haunting Silent Night, And on the fringes of the crowd, snatching bits of paper streamers and begging slices of watermelon, were scores of ragged black children who had not been invited. "Next year," promised a prison warder as he watched them, "we'll make it a multiracial party...
Seedy Case. In Nogales, Ariz., with a juicy watermelon to take home, Police Sergeant Louis Rosas kept it from a fellow officer by carving the word "evidence...
Anthony Quinn, complete with Mongolian mustache and a distempered look, stars as the barbarian leader finally turned from the portals of Rome by the Pope and a collection of cross-bearing Christians Bovine Sophia Loren (disgruntled sister of the play-pen emperor) bounces by in a chariot--with that watermelon corpulence which, in this sublimating age, passes for beauty at the box office...
...York Herald Tribune suggested on its editorial page last week what an editorial page should be about. "Reading most newspaper editorials these days," wrote the new chief of the Trib's editorial page, ex-TIME-and-LiIFE Staffer William J. Miller, "is like eating boiled watermelon. They are dull, even worse, they are bland. Our whole society has become bland. The old-fashioned American capacity for outrage or indignation is so often absent as to seem almost archaic. We intend to restore...
...Brooklyn alma mater, P.S. 149, where he demonstrated the irresistible hold he used to have on coeds, and recalled that it was in a school minstrel show that he first appeared on the stage and made a hit-playing a small seed in a large slice of watermelon...