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...movement is a part of a nation-wide effort started at the University of Indiana when a textbook commissioner there stated that she thought the book "Robin Hood" should be banned from the schools. Her reason was that "Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor, and that's Communism...
National directives advocate writing of letters to congressmen and arousing organized interest in opposition to McCarthy. Utilizing the Robin Hood theme, the "Merry Men" behind the movement will wear anti-McCarthy buttons with green feathers...
...whose pedestrian melody never caught the fire of its lyrics. There is a sleeper, just released, called "Kissing Bridge" that should sell on the basis of its one rhyme: "To the old Kissing Bridge with its roof made of wood, ev'ry old fashioned wolf took his Red Riding Hood...
...cream he is eating. The University generally refrains from giving these firms any free publicity, but to satisfy the curiousity of many curious coffee drinkers, Heamen revealed that the College dining halls use Edmund's Coffee and the graduate schools serve Whitehouse. Milk and ice cream are purchased from Hood's and Whiting's. "There is no one firm," says Heamen, "that is big enough to do business with Harvard University all the time...
...cast over the U.S. people, both young and old. There is hardly a child above the age of four who does not know and constantly voice the brassy notes (dum du dum dum) of Dragnet's theme music. Phonograph records (St. George & the Dragonet, Little Blue Riding Hood, Christmas Dragnet) which parody Dragnet's terse, low-keyed dialogue have sold 1,326,000 copies, and Sergeant Friday's calm "All we want are the facts, ma'am" has become a conversation staple. But millions who laugh at Dragnet jokes are spirited back weekly into a mood...