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...many years have passed since then. But--to coin a phrase--the more things change the more they remain the same. In the 1930's the chief campus concern was: how many goldfish can a college student swallow at one sitting? Today, the great question seems to be this: how many students can inhabit a telephone booth at once? (A connection between the booth and the fish also arises from the fact that buthia is ancient Greek for "water animals...
Nobody could say for sure how it all began. And nobody, for that matter, particularly cared. The fact was that spring had come, and U.S. college boys, jaded by past triumphs in 1) goldfish swallowing and 2) panty stealing, took up last week a new game called Telephone Box Squash. It started in South Africa, sped on to England, and by week's end was the rage in California...
...Goldfish & Warriors. Other men often made better movies, but no one else ever catered with such monumental efficiency to the fickle, well-fed goddess that Hollywood describes as public taste. For years, DeMille was Hollywood: he founded one of its first studios in a barn. When he went west from New York in 1913, head of a syndicate that included a struggling vaudeville producer named Jesse Lasky and a glove salesman named Sam Goldfish (later Goldwyn), it was enough that he had the drive and energy to put together The Squaw Man, Hollywood's first full-length flicker, with...
...Reynolds Metals Co. subsidiary, Administrator Mason moves into the top job with plenty of experience behind him. A onetime Chelmsford, Mass, lumber dealer, Mason went to the FHA in 1954 when it was reeling from the windfall profits scandals, promised that "we're going to live in a goldfish bowl from now on." He was as good as his word. Mason cleaned up the FHA, went on to speed up and expand its loan program, started a housing program for old folks, worked hard for urban renewal and better quality houses for home buyers...
...toward mass demonstration on the grounds that contemporary college students tend to see that complicated problems cannot be solved by parades and placards. Clymer concluded that it is too early to evaluate the worth of today's graduates, just as their parents' generation could not be judged by "the goldfish they gulped...