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...city straddles a grey-green current that carries both sewage and water lilies into Manila Bay. Many of its streets are potholed; rats chitter behind the wainscoting of its finest restaurants; street urchins peddle everything from lottery tickets to fragrant sampaguita garlands ?all at outrageous prices. The current craze requires shops to have a D apostrophe preceding the English names, as in D'Artland Gallery, D'Elegant Theater, D'Stag Cocktail Lounge and D'Best Furniture Store. Why? "It's classy," explains a Filipino. "It's French...
...saucy soubrette from The Bronx who could barely sing a note, but in the flapper-happy '20s turned a baby voice, puckered-up lips, a couple of songs (/ Wanna Be Loved by You, Button Up Your Overcoat) and one nonsense phrase ("boop-boop-a-doop") into a national craze; of cancer; in Queens...
...mile radius of Prince George, miners are digging for mercury and steel-hardening molybdenum, copper and zinc. At least 125 mining-company whirlybirds are chopping the mountain air in the hunt for minerals. In the past three months alone, 130 mining companies have been formed, mostly to mine the craze for penny dreadfuls on the frantic Vancouver Stock Exchange, where, since trading opens at 6 a.m. to be on schedule with Toronto and New York, it is not uncommon to see tuxedoed partygoers stagger in for a fling of late action...
...closed. Munich's 250-year-old Alois Dallmayr's is a Delikatessen in the original German sense of the word. Its sales of delicacies zu essen are soaring, as are those of practically every other fancy-food store in West Germany, on the strength of the latest craze to sweep the country: the Edelfresswelle, or exotic-food-devouring wave...
MARY POPPINS IS A JUNKIE kicked off the craze. This was the brainchild of San Francisco Disk Jockey Dan Sorkin, who was fed up with the Mary Poppins cult, had 1,000 Poppins stickers run off for his friends, including Julie Andrews, who pasted one on her station wagon. Sorkin's station KSFO started printing the sticker, and before it knew what had happened, 60,000 had been given away...