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...BOAT (101 pp.)-Walfer Gibson -Houghfon Mifflin...
...Change. The Gibson Girl of half a century ago, whaleboned into an hourglass shape, almost never heard the word "sex." It was a relatively new scientific term, to be distinguished from "love," which was too idealized, and "lust," which was too blunt...
Probably the Gibson Girl never heard of "petting" either, but if she was a late model (born in the 1890s and therefore included in Kinsey's sample), the chances are four out of five that she indulged in it under another name. Says Kinsey: "Many consider petting an invention of modern American youth-the byproduct of an effete and morally degenerate . . . culture. It is taken by some to reflect the sort of moral bankruptcy which must lead to the collapse of any civilization. Older generations did, however, engage in flirting, flirtage, courting, bundling, spooning, mugging, smooching, larking, sparking...
Frigidity. When the Gibson Girls' daughters arrived on the scene, cloche-hatted flappers, short-skirted and prattling about repressions, this is what happened to the sex lives of U.S. women, according to Kinsey...
...Marshal's Daughter (Ken Murray; United Artists), undoubtedly one of the worst westerns ever made, seems to have a little of everything in it: a gun-shooting crisis, reminiscent of High Noon, with clocks inexorably moving toward midnight; a barroom brawl scene from an old Hoot Gibson silent; veteran Cowboy Gibson himself as a U.S. marshal whose blonde daughter (Laurie Anders) sings, dances, does a ventriloquist act and is equally expert at shooting, riding and jujitsu; guest appearances by such familiar faces from the wide-open spaces as Tex Ritter, Preston Foster, Jimmy Wakely, Buddy Baer, Johnny Mack Brown...