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...Tell him [Butler] about racism," Hy-land interjected at one point while Krim was speaking. Hyland remarked that he found it difficult to sit in the same room as Butler...
...Viet Nam. To raise her six-year-old son, Julia wants to resume her nursing career. She phones a physician and is immediately offered an interview. But she wavers. "Oh," she asks, "did they tell you I'm colored?" "Mm," he replies, "what color are you?" "Wh-hy, I'm Negro." "Oh," says the doctor. "Have you always been a Negro, or are you just trying to be fashionable...
Mint Green. "Brownie," as he had been called since childhood, had plenty of vim and vigor and decided to give the place a shaking-up. He also clasped to his bosom an ex-pressagent named Hy Gardner. Gardner got a gossip column and a big voice in the upper echelons. Soon Brownie brought in a dismally square Tangle Towns puzzle contest, a mint-green third section, a weekly pocket TV magazine (editor: Gardner), and an early-bird edition that came out at 8 p.m. The puzzles boosted circulation, but the green section did nothing, the TV guide lost money...
...Boston Monkey, but if they do they're nowhere. For in the frenzied world of the discotheque, where a dance is old while it's still new, only the sharpies and the "disco bums" are ever in the know. They know, as Philadelphia Disk Jockey Hy Lit knows, that "the Philly Dog was invented by the kids and is spreading through Philadelphia like a virus." And as everyone should now be aware, whenever Philadelphia rocks, the rest of the U.S. rolls...
...Philly Dog, now bounding in from Philadelphia, is happy-go-lucky. It can be recognized, says Hy Lit, by its characteristic crouch, "sort of a break in the knees, like a guy on first base waiting to steal second." Dancers are also expected to clench their hands like paws and grapple with an invisible necktie, then place their hands behind the back in the "duck" position (palms outward). The dance, says one Philadelphia record promoter, evolved out of a "vulgar and risque" tail-wagging Kentucky dance called the Dog, which was banned in several cities. Says he: "The kids...