Word: heps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hep. In Chicago, Mrs. Neola Kleidon, granted a divorce after she complained that her husband Charles did not like boogie-woogie, waived alimony payments but won custody of the family phonograph and record collection...
...Kirkwood Jr., husky, handsome pro golfer and "the Ideal American Boy" who plays Joe Palooka in the movies, was hauled off to court in Worcester, Mass. and adjudged the father of a pair of six-year-old ideal American twins belonging to a movie cashier named Florence Hep-penstall. "I scarcely knew the girl," said Joe, who nonetheless made a prompt cash settlement...
Last winter, the varsity finished fourth behind Army, Yale, and Columbia. Since then, the addition of Brown has boosted Hep membership to ten colleges. All ten are endowed with at least one or two talented athletes. Cornell's sophomore Bob Mealey, the national AAU 1000 champion, will probably win his event tomorrow; Penn has a 7:56 two-mile relay team, Olympic hurdler Jeff Kirk, and two-miler Dick Hart; Brown high jumper Dick Phillips generally gets up ever six-six; Al Holland, of Columbia, has done 1:15.3 in the 600; Princeton's Ronald Wittreich will probably press...
...second look. This time, he reported with satisfaction, the capacity audience wasn't finding nearly so much to laugh at. "Opening night yaks were being greeted by yawns." Billy's diagnosis: "On opening night, the wise-guy audience laughed fit to bust, either because it was hep to Hart's lilliputian libels, or because it wanted the fellow in the next seat to think it was. But the average gent and his missus are evidently more interested in laughter . . . Light Up the Sky comes through as a private show-business joke...
...over into outlandish muggajuggery about gangsters, a torch singer (Virginia Mayo) and a crew of antiquated musicologists, the yarn gets in the way of the hot licks. The plottiness dooms Kaye to the role of master of ceremonies. He handles his interludes adroitly, but some are overlong. And a hep cat can't wait...