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Guitarist Homer and Mandolin Player Jethro were just a couple of traveling Knoxville musicians in 1938. Then they "got to kiddin' around," and did a parody of Over the Rainbow (to the tune of John Henry). Later, a recording of it sold more than 100,000 copies. After that the boys became a good draw wherever they went on the hillbilly circuit. In 1948 they joined the National Barn...
...nine-hole Centre Hills Country Club. At noon, the brothers went back to the house to grab up fishing tackle, then set off for an afternoon's fishing (dry fly) on a nearby private estate. In five hours, the happy President hooked and landed 20 trout (brown, rainbow, brook). He threw back all but the five biggest, which were duly photographed, cooked and eaten...
...Rainbow of Chaos. The National Assembly ranks with pousse cafe as a peculiarly French concoction. The pousse café is one of the most unnecessary drinks in the bartender's manual-a frivolous combination of liqueurs and cognacs, one poured gingerly atop the other to avoid blending them together. Each ingredient forms one bar in a rainbow of alcoholic chaos, each flavor nullifying the taste of the next, all falling into murky disarray if jiggled by a shaky hand. The Assembly is the pousse café of parliament...
...order for 100 Thunderjets, its first jet fighter, but it was losing money on the Seabee (TIME, Sept. 17, 1945), a small private amphibian, and was $7,000,000 in the red. To make matters worse, American Airlines and Pan American Airways canceled orders for the four-engine Rainbow transport, the only transport orders Republic had. Then Peale took his first gamble; he decided to junk the Seabee program, stop trying for civilian orders, and stake Republic's future on Government contracts...
...Seven Year Itch found the rainbow somewhere. Elliott Nugent and Courtney Burr tossed together some foul gags and spicy acting and came out with an unexplicably funny production, now at the Wilbur...