Word: backyards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curie, the greatest madame of them all!" From their turkey Bonanza Bound, they resurrect Inspiration, which credits women with inspiring great men through the ages. "That's enough of that Oriental stuff," cries Betty as Composer Rimsky-Korsakov's wife. "Just look around you in your own backyard." Suddenly she sees a backyard bee, screams, and Adolph frantically pursues the pest while buzz-buzzing The Flight of the Bumblebee...
...Happy Birthday," Celebrator Garner sliced into a handsome cake, quavered a brief thank-you speech. "I love everybody." he concluded. "I've never had any hatred in my heart." Then, amid cheers, the old man shuffled off for his afternoon nap while the boys lined up for the backyard feast...
...apostle of U.S. private enterprise, Kansas Oilman Bill Graham has ranged far afield with cash and encouragement for budding businessmen (TIME, Dec. 23). He has backed furniture makers in Greece, cement contractors in Lebanon, nylon manufacturers in India. This week Bill Graham was looking right in his own backyard for business ideas to encourage. Onto a statewide TV hookup from Wichita's KAKE-TV went the first of twelve TV programs called Opportunity Knocks that will award up to $75,000 in financial backing to the best home-grown ideas for small business...
Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy. He logged 14,000 miles and 30 speeches for fellow candidates in 17 states, zipped off 5,000 miles through 185 Massachusetts towns. Kennedy's out-of-state legwork made many a Democrat indebted; Kennedy's backyard spading produced a record-breaking, 870,000-vote plurality for him and high-lift coattails for other Massachusetts Democrats...
...Matterhorn-Zermatt, which is reached only by cog railway. And those who expect to live on an expense account in the future, or like fine food, might want to jot down his pick of New York restaurants: Miako's for steak and lobsters, Christ Cella, and, downtown, Peter's Backyard, on West Tenth Street...