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...wobbly line), examined Greer Carson's knees after an Eastern stocking designer called her knock-kneed (no knock), inspected the redecorated ladies' room at Romanoff's restaurant (Hedy Lamarr was surprised to meet him there) and played bit parts in six movies. For his brash, brisk reporting about these unlikely activities and more consequential news of Hollywood, 39-yearold Erskine Johnson has become one of Hollywood's most widely read male columnists, earns about $35,000 a year (including radio and TV appearances...
There was a time, Albert Lynd remembers, when "next to the minister, the high-school principal . . . was the most learned fellow in town." Today, says Lynd, onetime educator and now a Boston advertising man, things have changed. The local high school may well be in the hands of "a brisk Kiwanian" whose teaching experience comes, not from the arts and sciences, but from auto driving or basketball and who earned his doctorate by "researches into the theory and function of a school cafeteria." "Who or what," Lynd asks, "was responsible for the change...
...cold air braced Vag; it made his steps brisk as he walked up Shepard St. and into the quad. Just to make sure, he reached into his inside pocket to see if the invitation was still there. It was: "You are cordially invited to attend an informal dance. See you there. O.K.! Joan S." This term was going to be different, starting that night. He would cement relations with Joan, meet a bevy of new girls, and never let another weekend go by. He was going to bow to the system from now on, even if it meant calling...
...their notebooks, which police found when they broke the Soviet spy ring in Canada in 1946, Soviet espionage agents were accustomed to make a brisk notation in Russian after the names of the traitorous scientists who furnished them information. The notation was NASH (he is ours...
Chief Alvin R. Randall of the University Police celebrated a modest birthday yesterday--that of the Lest and Found Bureau he operates. The bureau is a year old, and Chief Randall explained, as he unwrapped a misplaced checkbook that had been forwarded to his office, the business has been brisk, rewarding, and full of chuckles...