Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zagreb, Yugoslavia, a State Department-sponsored Porgy and Bess opened with a thunderous, 20-minute ovation. Crowds followed members of the cast through the streets, and Greta Slmntch, who flawlessly played the part of Porgy's goat, gave two liters of milk a day besides. "They loved you in Zagreb," New York Herald Tribune Columnist Art Buchwald cabled the producers, "and that means they'll love you anywhere...
...precarious cold-war no man's land boasts no D'Artagnan, but it has its own loose version of the Three Musketeers, a dissimilar threesome who feel a need to share their lonesomeness. Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Burma's Premier U Nu have, as one leading Yugoslav diplomat insists, "a similarity of outlook on present international developments...
...Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, who prodded Washington and London into working out a settlement of the nine-year Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia (TIME, Oct. 11), made her first visit to the prize involved in the diplomatic triumph. With top aides from the Rome embassy, she landed at Gorizia Airfield, proceeded by motorcade some 25 miles to the city of Trieste, where waiting citizens waved a welcome and tossed flowers to her. At city hall, she returned to Mayor Gianni Bartoli the 600-year-old manuscript of Italian Poet Francesco Petrarch's Africa, which had vanished...
Peace was busting out all over around the Kremlin. At a party in the Yugoslav embassy, where Soviet bigwigs came to assure their hosts that they now love Yugoslavia, Soviet Premier Georgy Malenkov sounded as if he had hired a so-Soviet gagwriter. Offered a cigarette by a foreign newsman, he politely declined. Quipped he: "Now don't go and write that the Soviet constitution forbids smoking!" Marshal Georgy Zhukov genially ribbed other correspondents about stories that he had ominously disappeared. Chortled Zhukov: "While I was reported missing, I was enjoying a swim down south...
...Jaunty Broadway Showman Mike Todd announced that he is planning to film Tolstoy's War and Peace next year in Yugoslavia and that Dictator Marshal Tito has agreed to lend 70,000 Yugoslavian troops as extras. A few days later, David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick chuckled as he reminded the world that he and Writer Ben Hecht were planning the very same film. Said Selznick: "I, too, have been contacted by the Yugoslavian government. However, I doubt that Tito's troops are uniformed and equipped in the manner of the armies of Bonaparte and Alexander...