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...Skirt. In Rochester, a thief stole gasoline from Frank Schmid's car by siphoning it off through a disconnected hula hoop...
...hampered Martin and his young staff. But they still managed to produce two units of similar if not overpowering strength. Martin set up competitive situations by scrimmaging the units against each other. To vary the routine, he broke practice one day to let the boys hold a hula hoop contest. During one scrimmage, he even dived into a play to make the tackle himself. The blend of fun and fundamentals paid off. Says a faculty member: "He convinced them they could...
...this is unfolded in an atmosphere that varies between Mr. Hammerstein's old Norman Rockwell whole someness and a new, Broadway, meretriciousness of second-rate sick jokes and falsie gags. Mechandizing the cuteness of a whole covey of little children (including one with a hula hoop, who got a big hand) provides the authors with one of several opportunities to be wholesome and meretricious at the same time...
...Brownie scouts. In Olean he let ward bosses wait while he strode into W. T. Grant's to shake more hands and buy a nickel's worth of green taffy. In Salamanca he grabbed a baton and directed the high school band, grabbed a hula hoop and, with a flourish, tossed it around his neck...
...Imperial Records actually brought out the first hoop disk (Hula Hoop) on the West Coast last June, but the craze had not yet reached its shimmying climax, and the record failed to take...