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Movies parodying movies were all the rage last year. The French began the fad with Zazie Dans le Metro and two nutty Yalies continued with Hallelujah the Hills. Both works snatched sequences from well-known films and spoofed them in crescendos of utter nonsense. Those versed in the history of the cinema had a gay time recognizing various snippets and whispering snobbish comments to their dates...
Crimson pitcher Jim McCandlish, thinking he had detected the beginning of a fad, ventured another bunt. He was right. The catcher hit him in the back with the ball and the bases were loaded. Houston then grounded sharply to the left side of the infield. The Holy Cross shortstop made a diving catch but had no play as Neville crossed the plate...
Even then, rock 'n' roll was still dismissable among the sophisticates as a curiously persistent fad. But then came the British. U.S. parents had weathered Pat Boone's white-bucks period, the histrionics of Johnnie Ray, and the off-key mewings of Fabian, but this was something else again?four outrageous Beatles in high-heeled boots, undersized suits and enough hair between them to stuff a sofa. When they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, 68 million people, one of the largest TV audiences in history, tuned in to see what all the ruckus was about...
...interns, orderlies and nonprofessional workers in Britain's hospitals are colored, 17% of the nurses' aides, and from 20% to 40% of the bus and underground employees in London and Birmingham. On the plus side, West Indian cricket stars have played in English professional leagues, while the fad for American-style (and Negro-based) rock 'n' roll has helped make sultry Shirley Bassey, daughter of an English mother and a Jamaican father, one of the top two or three British women singers...
...possibilities in this soft, slick stuff that draped so gracefully and was so easily printed with clear color and bold design. Now some of the big Paris houses are backing away a bit from what bids fair to be an all-out fad, but U.S. manufacturers are bringing it out in all kinds of new colors and patterns-tiger, pigskin, and the ubiquitous...