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...because the roles of performer and audience interlock. A man rushing for the bus dons a sheepish smile to indicate his awareness of how silly he looks. His observers reward his performance-that is, the smile-by smiling sympathetically back. With this response, they become performers, and the bus chaser becomes the audience...
...Products. By comparison, Tillie's life has hardly any fizz at all. Serious, well-trained in sociology, she meets a gimp-legged skirt-chaser and hopeless vulgarian named Pete Seltzer. His public wit runs to doubletalk and the invention of nonsense "end" products: after-shaving mints, dietetic shampoo, reversible mayonnaise. "He thinks Cameroons are some kind of cookie," she reflects bitterly. But they marry anyhow and live together until their nine-year-old son dies of lingering leukemia...
After a year at Dartmouth and an engineering degree from M.I.T. ('36), Bunkie went to work for a Detroit machine shop. He reached Pontiac in 1939 as a menial "tool chaser." Then, for a decade, he tried out anything that might broaden his experience from defense-plant inspector to car-assembly superintendent...
Died. Jayne Mansfield, 34, sometime actress and full-time publicity chaser; of a crushed skull when the car she was riding in slammed into a truck, also killing Attorney Samuel S. Brody, 40, and their chauffeur; in New Orleans. Endowed with a pretty, pouty face and an astounding (40-18-36) figure, Jayne was single-mindedly intent on becoming a "Hollywood personality," and in a way she succeeded-by flooding the papers with peep-show photos and an incredible series of antic marriages, mishaps and escapades. In her role as the dazzlingly dumb blonde in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...
Three years ago, a book-chaser in Widener got his foot caught in the elevator shaft. This aroused concern over the "antiquated" and "potentially dangerous" state of Widener's elevators, DeGennaro said...