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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...