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...spring the prisoners showed a passionate interest in flower gardening. The beds were beautifully kept until a visiting narcotics agent discovered marijuana growing among the hollyhocks and sunflowers. The garden fad ended on the spot...
Since 1847, white kids and excessive drinking of green tea have gone out of fad, but snobs are in again, and so is writing about them. The latest snobographer to revive the discussion is Russell Lynes, an editor of Harper's who set himself up in a magazine article last year as an arbiter of high, low and middle brows. In Snobs, Arbiter Lynes patters along in Thackeray's large footsteps, rather like a shrill but amiable terrier at the end of a 100-year leash. His bark is sure to get plenty of attention, and his bite...
...designer who claims to have launched the chignon fad, one Madame Marguerite Buck of Fashion Futures, had also helped promote the short haircut. "American women carry things to extremes," said she. "We didn't expect them to crop all their hair off-they look like Chihuahuas." The chignon, she thought, was the ideal answer...
...into 17. But Broadway still had high hopes for 1950-51. The war, always a boost to show business, and a current fad for theater parties were expected to help. The 14,000-member Show-of-the-Month Club, which last year sold over $600,000 worth of tickets, looked for a bigger enrollment this year...
...psychoanalysis a cure-all for the minor ills of the mind? Or is it a costly fad full of humbug? Few healing techniques of modern times are fought over with such violent partisanship as the long-drawn-out Freudian analysis. For the past fortnight, a layman and two prominent psychiatrists have carried on the argument in the Nation...