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CHESTER & LESTER (RCA). A pair of good ole boys click in a cheerful studio jam as Les Paul's familiar slipping, sliding notes trace a delicate web around Chet Atkin's crisp licks...
...political candidates it should come as something of quick, quick, quick relief to learn that their high-priced campaign ads on TV really pay off. Or so the American Psychological Association convention was told last week. Charles Atkin, a Michigan State University professor who has studied elections in Colorado, Wisconsin and Michigan, noted that more than 60% of the people whom he surveyed claimed that TV ads helped them decide which candidate to vote...
Jargonwise, the conference was a regular laff riot. Toronto Teacher John Atkin proposed establishing "designed, unifunctional anxiety-release centers in a community situation." Translation: maybe it would be a good idea to have a string of government-supported laugh parlors, where people could go to chuckle. A group of Canadian researchers reported on "Ethnic Humor as a Function of Social-Normative Incongruity on the Basis of Multiple Dependent Variables." The report questioned whether Chinese immigrants found Canadians funny, but reached no firm conclusions. Another paper analyzed "Glee Rates" of nursery-school children. Among its findings: playfulness decreases when kids...
...other runners for Harvard that gained points were Dave Sullivan and Dave Atkin. They went around a muddy Franklin Park in 17:10 and 17:22 respectively...
...other performers are all wonderful, too, each in their own way. Pete Atkin plays a mean piano when he is not cavorting with the others. And Jonathan James-Moore, tall and wild-eyed, makes a nice alternative to Dai Davies, shorter and dull-eyed...