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...today's newspapers would hesitate to print. The best of them-the New York World's Rollin Kirby, whose "Mr. Dry" hastened Prohibition's repeal; the Post-Dispatch's corrosive Daniel R. Fitzpatrick; the Baltimore Sun's hard-hitting Edmund Duffy; J. N. (Ding) Darling of the Des Moines Register and the New York Herald Tribune; Arthur Henry (Art) Young of Chicago's old Inter-Ocean, a bitter commentator on social injustice-burned with an inner fire that gave their names and their work a national currency...
...swings one cat, "Mr. President, bang-de-dawd-o-dawd, do you think-de-ding-di-dink the education bill will pass, dingy dong de-doong...
Suggested by a story in TIME (April 13, 1959), Where the Boys Are describes one of the more frantic phenomena of the affluent society: the annual Spring-Ding or Florida Flip of the book-bashed, sun-starved North American undergraduate. Come Easter vacation, students from all over the Northeast and Midwest pile into anything that holds gas and roar south. In recent years, more than 20,000 of these "migratory shirkers" have settled for the two-week season in Fort Lauderdale, and there the camera finds them-soaking up sun and beer, sleeping twelve to a motel cell...
...anticipated battle between Crimson and Bulldog two-mile relay units will not take place, because coaches Bill McCurdy of Harvard and of Yale and meet director Ding of Tufts were unable do agree on a time schedule. As matters stand, One , Fred Howard, Jod Fungerald, and Den Kirkland should have little trouble with a third-string Yale squad...
Will someone please tell Mr. Sinatra, and his ring-a-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ding ding middle-aged cheatniks to keep their pizza-pickin' paws out of the White House? If American prestige is as low as Mr. Kennedy claims, Mr. Sinatra and his friends will certainly not improve the situation at home or abroad...