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SEPTEMBER. New Ivy League fashion craze, begun in Eliot House, sweeps the nation--black shirts. Cecil B. DeMille arrested by Moscow Secret Police for conspiring to overthrow the government. Says De Mille, "It was Stanislavski technique." Arthur Darby Nock denies that he is a living reincarnation. States he, "I am Arthur Darby Nock." Is given a Ford Grant to prove...
...Hollywood Columnist Hedda Hopper has tossed one of her hats into Ike's ring. ¶ To cool the "Elvis for President" craze among teenagers, Elvis Presley spread the word: "I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most...
Bridey Murphy has faded away into the thin air that produced her, but a weird new phenomenon is loose in the land; a teen-age craze for a boyish Hollywood actor named James Dean, who has been dead for eleven months. Barely a celebrity when he was killed in a sports-car crackup, Dean last week was haunting U.S. newsstands, which are plastered with four fast-selling magazines devoted wholly to him, e.g., Jimmy Dean Returns! ("Read his own words from the beyond!"). The actor is also a current "must" in every movie magazine, while three national magazines...
...founder; in Wetzlar, Germany. The Leitzes first introduced the Swiss watch industry's mass production technique to microscopy, later (1924) added the Leica as a sideline. But by 1930 the tail was wagging the dog, and miniature cameras and candid photography became a worldwide craze...
...second, paneled "family room" for everyday living. As for living rooms themselves, today's buyer wants a fireplace in a $10,000 house, whereas 87% of the $10.000 homes in the 1955 Labor Department survey had no fireplace. On the other hand, the great picture-window craze has been overdone. Too many picture windows face traffic-clogged streets or the neighbors' garbage cans...