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...Melbourne, after the U.S. Davis Cup team had been knocked out in the quarter-final round. Australia's teen-aged (19) Lewis Hoad beat Teammate Teen-Ager Ken Rosewall. 9-7, 8-6, 3-6, 6-3, for the Victorian tennis title. Aussie bookmakers promptly made the U.S. a 3-1 underdog in this month's Davis Cup matches...
This time a teen-ager's mother leafs back through her memory book to the scenes of her girlhood. In the old days (1936). Jennifer Goodall was besieged by all types and ages of suitors. She necked, under her father's eye. in the family parlor. She came away unscathed from a visit to a bachelor establishment, came back unscathed from a business trip to Chicago with the boss...
...Crude & the Creative. Stokowski, who admits to 66, is as enthusiastic as a teen-ager over his armfuls of new scores. "Music is becoming decentralized," he says. "It must. This country grew on individual initiative, first physically-with railroads-then culturally. It must continue, or we will never reach our flowering period...
...Playwright F. Hugh Herbert aims at equaling the smash success of his The Moon Is Blue with A Girl Can Tell, a new comedy about a teen-ager and her mother. George Axelrod, who wrote last season's hit, The Seven-Year Itch, will be back with another comedy called Pffft, which he describes as "the heart-warming chronicle of a happy divorce." Sidney (Detective Story) Kingsley is hard at work on a comedy about "sex and laughter" called Satyr's Dance...
Nervous & Mixed-up. In the presence of their elders, the kids profess to take Red in their stride. One junior high school girl says: "He's so corny, he's good." Another teen-ager existentially says: "He exists." A third explains: "You're not a real cool cat unless you listen to him. Everybody at school discusses his show next day, so you have to know what he said." Pleased with his fans, Blanchard is even more pleased with the eight sponsors who last week were paying him $12,000 a year. He has no notion...