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...hordes jump on My Bodyguard as the Breaking Away of this summer, a word of caution: None of the adolescent boys who star in My Bodyguard fall in love. They don't even become infatuated. Girls are brace-faced idiots who fill in the empty classrooms of the John Fleer School in Chicago, Ill. That makes this heart-warming tale of pubescent-bonding much simpler, of course, since females don't get in the way. Their absence casts a strange aura over this film, where the only libidinous urges come from Ruth Gordon, playing a grandmother with lust...
Sales Manager Frank H. Fleer Corp...
TIME was misinformed on the first count, right on the second. According to the best impartial estimates in the chewing gum trade, no single company does so much as half the total bubble gum business. Frank H. Fleer Corp. ("Bubble Bubble") and Gum, Inc., are each credited with about 30%, the Goudy Gum Co. of Boston with slightly less. The Fleer company is older and larger than Gum, Inc., but it does not cater exclusively to the penny gum trade...
...matter is that those in charge of the affairs of the Glee Club seem to be satisfied to act according to the spirit. They are blind to the high desirability of conducting the extra mural relations of the Glee Club in a spirit of courtesy and good sportsmanship. Mr. Fleer's letter provides an excellent illustration of my point where he says...
...Fleer to insinuate that Harvard's defeat due to "crude and obvious" unfairness on the part of the judge I unhesitatingly call bad--very bad--sportsmanship. Truly yours Francis Rogers...