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...beauty queens at Atlantic City last week were a dazzling flock. They were handsomer, shapelier, fresher-and looked less like a group of painted chorus girls-than in many a previous year. Chaperons tagged constantly at their heels, shielding them from men, strong drink and the temptation of chewing gum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Strutters | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Small fry spat out their bubble gum and rushed to get a new bubble-blowing outfit which produces bubbles four to five feet in diameter, and with the consistency of Cellophane. One shortcoming: when punctured, the bubbles collapse with a despondent whoosh instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americano | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Nursery Rhymes. After the concert, in the Harris' neat, flower-print-curtained apartment in Chicago's South Side Negro district, Margaret couldn't decide what to do next. She tried playing ball with her father, a railroad machinist; then she went to work on some gum, and showed reporters her dolls. Said she, eyes wide: "There were an awful lot of people there, and at first I was afraid. But I just went over to my piano, and then I wasn't afraid any more." How did it feel when the audience clapped? "Felt good-real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prodigy | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...editor knows her business girls better than they know themselves. By bombarding them with questionnaires, she has learned that they earn an average of $170 a month, that 71% of them chew gum, only 37% smoke 63% are single and 95% think (wishfully or otherwise) that it is not a man's world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Just Among Us Girls | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...were practicing trills and twitters in anticipation of a new Mutual show which will celebrate the canaries' 20th consecutive year on the air. In Portland, Ore., 250 sticky youngsters filled the air with gooey snaps and pops-and splattered the microphone-at the first broadcast of a bubble-gum contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Continued Balmy | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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