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...Pennsville, N.J., some 26 finalists prepared to jam large pink lumps of bubble gum into their mouths and see-for the prize of a U.S. Savings Bond-who can blow the biggest bubble. They have two minutes to do it in, plus an initial ten seconds to get the chew started. The "world championship" contest was designed to help promote the bubble gum industry, a $20 million a year business. Philadelphia alone exports each week 25 tons of gum to Japan, the Philippines, Italy, Hawaii-places which during World War II felt the cultural impact...
Bubble gum, bubble gum, chew and blow...
...three city blocks of buildings and traffic. Some suspected that he had seven-league boots as well. One unlucky trainload of troops who gave Jimmy the raspberry as their train pulled out of Wellington awoke next morning to find him waiting in Auckland (more than 300 miles away) to chew them out. He had grabbed a plane and flown up for the privilege. But the quality that earned Jimmy his real fame in the South Pacific was his voice...
...head nine times on the ground before the Manchu Emperor. Thus the envoys of all the world acknowledged the supremacy of the Chinese sovereign. "Repugnant . . . degrading . . . inexpedient," the Britons had decided, "required for the obvious purpose of reducing us to a level with missions from Corea and the Lew-chew islands [i.e., Korea and the Ryukyus, including Okinawa] . . . should be refused...
DeMille has provided plenty of gorgeous scenery for all the actors to chew on, and has filmed his spectacular scenes with technical virtuosity and boundless gusto. Even lovers of cinematic art who recognize Samson and Delilah as a run-of-DeMille epic should enjoy it as a simple-minded spree. In its way, it is as much fun as a robust, well-organized circus...