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...Ensign David Flohr of Banana River, Fla., passed along a current idiom. In a letter to LIFE, praising a picture of Rita Hayworth in a sheer nightgown, he cried: "She's really Mello-Rooney, Viddle...
...after tax and pension deductions); the unpopularity of walking as a recreation; the way U.S. children sing familiar nursery rhymes, e.g., London Bridge Is Falling Down, Sing a Song of Sixpence, to unfamiliar tunes. A five-year-old in her class is a self-appointed interpreter ("Miss Eades means banana...
...added Marguerite Stakes. Then Arcaro returned to the irreverent New York tracks, where he is booed whether he wins or loses. Booing Arcaro is part of the fun of attending horse races in New York. Fans holler out cracks about his oversized ears and long nose ("Banana Nose!" they shout). Says he: "The damn fools don't know what they're booing about ... of course I don't like it-I'm human...
TIME, which is accustomed to skidding on banana peels and having...
...live groups, some of the members of whom are refugees from the BVDeed Football Band have been serenading themselves and others for several weeks from a variety of locations. The two beat section, The Harvard Banana Orchestra (the band with appeal) featuring "Hot Lips" Loring, "Slush Pump" Pines, and "Spanker" Spencer holds forth on Wednesday evenings. The Gillespieites under "Rebop" Whitehouse give out on Thursdays. Holden Chapel, a building which has seen nearly everything during its two hundred and two years of existence is destined for at least one new sight when these two groups introduce it to le jazz...