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...vintage auto clubs also help to keep the craze alive by emphasizing authenticity and quality. The Classic Car Club recognizes only blue-blooded autos of "fine design, high engineering standards and superior workmanship." Regardless of age. it blackballs all Chevrolets, Plymouths. Xashes. Dodges, Pontiacs, Buicks. Oldsmobiles and De Sotos. even turns down some Cadillac models. Recently the club even refused to admit Ford's modern Continental Mark II as a "classic...
...microphone at NBC's WMAQ in Chicago, shifted into heavy Negro dialect, and gave birth to a national institution. Within two years the Amos 'n' Andy show of Freeman Gosden (Amos, Kingfish et al.) and Charles Correll (Andy) was radio's first great popular craze, so captivating that U.S. telephone calls soon fell off 50% between 7 p.m. and 7:15, and movie theaters stopped their films to pipe in the show. Last week balding Freeman Gosden, 58, and silver-haired Charles Correll, 68, quietly celebrated their 30th anniversary-still...
...jockeys report that ballads are continuing to cut into rock 'n' roll popularity. From staid Boston, WBZ's Bill Marlowe states flatly that "Rock 'n' roll has had it. The teen-agers are beginning to look to better music." But in Los Angeles the craze is just as strong as ever, and in Atlanta, jukebox operators and record shop proprietors say that rock 'n' roll is still by far the most popular music...
...CANDY CRAZE is biting into the diet craze, to the relief of candy makers. After candy-eating dropped to 16.5 lbs. per person in 1954, sudden upsurge this year will push consumption to near-record...
...Craze for Power. The day before, Vice President Radhakrishnan, onetime Oxford don, had been even blunter. "The craze for power and personal ambition [has created] a state of demoralization," he said. These and other signs of political stirring by long-ossified Congress members throughout the country were regarded by the staid Times of India as "an examination of the conscience." The Times thought sadly that the examination might have come too late. "Congress was once a good cause," the paper said. "Now it's degenerating into a bad habit...