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...students, says Semana, and from the well-to-do suburbs. They wear blue jeans, sweaters and moccasins (though mostly at home), they must dance well, and "cultivate at least five of the following tastes : comics, spaceship adventure books, U.S. jazz, iced soft drinks, the movies, the radio, sports, chewing gum or hot-rods." Most notably, they must know the vocabulary. Samples: "phantasmagoric," "atomic" or "pyramidal" (for great), "pineapple" and "mango" (for a kiss), "curse of the green turkey buzzard" and "horror, horror, three times horror!" (as all-purpose exclamations of surprise or distaste...
...Please do not touch!" reads the sign posted beside the display of still lifes on exhibit in the University of Wisconsin's Library Gallery in Madison. But the fascinating assortment of smoking pipes, fiddles, Confederate bills, newspaper scraps and crumpled chewing-gum wrappers-all seeming to leap out of the canvases in vivid perspective-is too tempting. Furtively many a viewer last week glanced around to see if anyone was watching, then probed gently at the paintings to see whether the pictures actually were painted or just pasted...
Last week a 'Cliffe administration ruling imposed tight "Harvard-like restrictions on all 'Cliffedwellers in examinations. But the Annex Student Council has reacted to the order and issued an ultimatum to Dean of Residence Emily Lacey. It demands that 'Cliffedwellers continue to be allowed to "chew gum and suck lollipops" in examinations...
Married. Guy Madison (real name: Robert Moseley), 32, onetime dimpled Hollywood juvenile (Since You Went Away) and current hero of the bubble-gum set as TV's Wild Bill Hickok; and Sheilah Connolly, 24, TV actress; each for the second time (his first: Actress Gail Russell; hers: Producer Harry Danziger); in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...
...this casual thriller, Dana Andrews, Gent Tierney and Judith Anderson are the other points of interest. Andrews proves he's a hard-bitten detective type by chewing gum, and Miss Tierney struggles with valor to live up to her role as the world's sweetest girl. Miss Anderson, being an almost hallowed institution of American drama, is beyond criticism, since everything she does is more or less perfect...