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Born. To Frankie Avalon, 23, aging teen warbler, and Kay Deibel Avalon, 25, former dental technician: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles...
...reorganizing for its owner, Chewing Gum Tycoon Philip K. Wrigley, the grand design leaves room for hardly any autos at all. Local transportation will be generally restricted to electric carts, which will have their own system of cartways, forbidden to automobiles. An electric tram will serve the principal city, Avalon (Pereira staffers are now in Europe studying various types of narrow-gauge railways), and the island will be dotted with small parks within 200 or 300 feet of each other. Outdoor cafés, garden apartments and single-family houses will be designed around open plazas and courtyards...
...beach resembles Seal Rock in mating season. Frankie Avalon, with his pack of gold-necklaced surf jockeys, and Annette Funicello, with her bevy of busty beach bunnies are-in the words of one of their tribal hymns-"just asurfin' all day and swingin' all night." But danger lurks in the dunes: a marauding band of post-Brando wild ones roars up on a midnight raid. Quinquagenarian Cummings, with precious little help from Frankie, sends them yelping off with their motorcycles tucked between their legs...
...climax of this primitive business is a custard-pie war in a beatnik beer and poetry parlor. Pie-facing, like pratfalling, seems to be a lost art nowadays, and Avalon desecrates the memory of Deadpan Harry Langdon: he stands there and actually squinches up his eyes before the strawberry cream splatters all over his pretty face. Nonetheless, Annette goes ape for Frankie, crooning "I was such a fool/ To treat him so crool...
...Surf, a onetime adult nightclub just outside Boston, decided to pitch for the Coke-swigging crowd, now attracts upward of 1,000 teenagers, who pay about $1 a head to gyrate to the emoting of Fabian, Frankie Avalon or Bobby Darin. In Cape Coral, Fla., a $50,000 clubhouse is being readied for the autumn opening of the nation's first teen-age key club. Only key-carrying teen-agers (19 is the absolute age limit) will be admitted, and violators of the club's code-no smoking, no drinking, lots of pingpong and billiards-will have...