Word: rainbow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pinion's Rainbow (book by E. Y. Harburg & Fred Saidy; music & lyrics by Burton Lane and Mr. Harburg; produced by Lee Sabinson & William R. Katzell) is an apt title for a show where frequently rain is falling and the sun is shining at the same time. It is decidedly brighter than most musicals, and it might have been one of the brightest of them all; but its virtues can never quite shake themselves free of its faults...
...formula plot is certainly not one of these faults; what goes on in Finian's Rainbow almost defies synopsis. A satirical and social-minded fantasy, Finian tells of an Irishman (Albert Sharpe) who borrows a pot of gold from a leprechaun, brings it to the U.S., and buries it somewhere in the southern state of "Missitucky." The gold's magic powers turn bellowing Senator Billboard Rawkins first into a black man and then into a kindly one; take the kinks out of the romance between the Irishman's daughter (Ella Logan) and her Missitucky beau. And, bereft...
...years to fill them. But Convair, strikebound for some three months during the year, reported a deficit of $1.8 million for the first nine months after applying a carryback tax credit of $4 million. Also losing money was Republic Aviation Corp., which had 26 firm orders for its Rainbow but did not expect to start deliveries until late...
...political parties that have no past, and but little promise of any future. In [Quebec] there have appeared in recent times the Union Nationale, the Bloc Populaire, the CCF, Social Credit, the Union des Electeurs, the Labor-Progressive [Communists] Party, and so-called Independents of every color of the rainbow. . . . The so-called Union Nationale is not national, but narrowly provincial; the Bloc Populaire is certainly not popular; many people do not know what the initials CCF stand for; one day, Social Credit is the same thing as the Union des Electeurs, the next...
...only had a breakaway back," he mourns, adding that Notre Dame this year will probably play a good deal of "Minnesota football''' (three yards at a crunch). Leahy prefers tricky overhand laterals and daring forwards with trade names like Banana, Swerve, Flair, Stop & Go, Rainbow...