Word: cat
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...into Paris after a two-month jam session in Africa as good-will ambassador for Pepsi-Cola and the State Department, leather-lunged Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong confided to the New York Herald Tribune's Art Buchwald that the Congo-for Satchmo, anyway-is as safe as a cat's own front porch. "Half the times I didn't know whether I was in the Congo or out of it," graveled Armstrong. "Them African places all look alike. But Léopoldville was great. I had three armies escorting me everywhere I went. There was the United...
...CAPTAIN CAT, by Robert Holles. An English novel, rich with lowest-class slang, in which two rebels at a military-cum-reform school discover that boyish idealism is no match for The System and the venom of original sin in which their regimented mates are steeped...
...actuaries some years ago decided that Clark Gable was the best risk in films, Elizabeth Taylor the worst by a wide margin. Making Raintree County four years ago, she wore a tight, Kodiak sort of corset that induced a hyperventilation syndrome ($45,299). For minor illnesses in Giant and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, she cost Fireman's Fund some $75,000. And now Lloyd's and the other underwriters are trying to decide whether they will reinstate Cleopatra's coverage. If they do not, the picture may never be finished. Insurance men made an interim...
prominent Soviet writers, tour of the U.S., visited the yesterday to record some of for Lamont Library, cat at Quincy House, and at HDC rehearsal of "Cauca Circle" at Loeb...
...village of Aberdeen, where patrons select the live fish that will be served them at dinner. Between bouts of shopping, visitors wander amid the outlandish statuary of the Tiger Balm Garden or prowl the stairway streets above Queen's Road and look into the thieves' market of Cat Street, where Chinese antiques from the mainland are sold at bargain prices because they cannot be brought into the U.S., which still maintains a total embargo on all goods from Red China. The antiques (many of dubious antiquity) are often bought by British and Italian dealers, shipped to Europe...