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...making headway. With the drive-in theater season about to begin, the Hilltop Drive-In near Perryville, Mo. planned to lure the customers by installing the added attraction of two monkeys in a cage. In Champaign, 111., the Twin City Drive-In prepared to put in another piece of bait: a 300-lb. bear...
...Duff, no man for compromise when the battle is going, refused the bait. If Jay Cooke had Grundy's support, he said flatly, then Cooke was not for Duff. Last week Duff summoned the more sympathetic of the state's 67 county chairmen to Hershey to pick a slate. Fifty-one of them or their representatives showed up. But many of them, more interested in patronage than principle, obviously preferred Cooke to bitter intraparty strife...
...more cynical observers think that Godfrey's greatest audience bait is the faintly smutty double meaning. "Godfrey can do more with the lift of an eyebrow than De Maupassant could with a volume," says one adman. "Whenever he ad-libs he talks himself right into the bathroom." Such scatological shockers as the miniature outhouse he used as a TV prop invariably explode titillated giggles in his studio and television audiences...
Southern Methodist University in Dallas reported that 13 undergraduates were enrolled in its new one-credit course: bait-casting. One of 16 alternative sections in Physical Education 12A, a required course for sophomores, it offered instruction three hours a week in the art of casting...
...writer out of him, saves his sympathy for the Eskimos and his wrath for missionaries who, with "tea and keks," are trying to change the Eskimos' manners & morals. Readers who gobble up Author Ruesch's enticing fictional blubber-ball may never suspect that it is dialectical bear bait until the later pages, where an aged anga-kok (medicine man) sums up his people's primitive philosophy, and makes it sound as up-to-date as a modern university lecture by a materialist philosopher...