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...even more disturbing is youth's certainty that Government will take care of it-a feeling which continues despite a good deal of political distrust of Government. Reports TIME'S Seattle Bureau: "The Pacific Northwest is only yesterday removed from the frontier, but the 'root, hog, or die' spirit has almost disappeared. Into its place has moved a curious dependence on the biggest new employer-Government. A 28-year-old aerodynamics specialist at Boeing says: 'I hope to work toward an income of $500 or $600 a month, after taxes. You know, only...
...Isabelle Buckley wanted to start a school in Los Angeles, and she knew exactly what sort of school she wanted it to be. Those were the days (1933) "when children were allowed to run hog-wild-with the blessings of pundits and psychologists alike. I didn't like it, and I resolved that there should be order in my school." But after weeks of doorbell ringing around Los Angeles, Mrs. Buckley* could find only eight children whose parents were willing to try the orderly, old-fashioned Buckley...
...Jerry Colonna Show (Mon. 8 p.m., ABC-TV), thus far unsponsored, originates in California but owes more to Minsky's than to Hollywood, as Colonna is propelled with quivering mustache, freewheeling eyes and hog-calling tenor through a series of burlesque skits. As a barber, he uses a chamberpot for a shaving mug; on a rocket to the moon, he nuzzles a blonde stowaway; as a TV repairman, he pulls a battered corset from a TV set, crying: "Your condenser is weak!" Best example of Colonna's Klaxon charm: his screech-voiced assault on the popular song...
...take justice into their own hands. They aimed to hang price controls on a sour apple tree. If that meant higher meat prices, they had a quick answer. Meat Packer Chris Finkbeiner of Little Rock, Ark. advised housewives: "If the money runs low, then just eat lower on the hog...
...every Erie share on the market, the supply suddenly became endless. Reason: Jim Fisk had set up a press to turn out fake stock certificates. Vowed Fisk: "If this printing press don't break down, I'll be damned if I don't give the old hog all he wants of Erie...