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Neither war, rationing, nor the advent of the atomic age had altered U.S. teenagers' preoccupation with malted milk, two-hour telephone calls and jukebox music. All had kept right on jiggling. But with draft boards apparently locked up for good, and the bubble-gum market bullish, teen-agers were now devoting more time to the complicated business of acting their age. Certain postwar changes in tribal custom, language, taboos, wooing, peculiarities of dress and methods of transport were evident...
...Polo (men only) or the Pickwick. The Polo provides two tables for volunteer snooker, a tattered copy of Punch, and a few low easy chairs in which members can order a whiskey-&-splash, and rehearse the good old days of rumrunning. The younger set prefer the Pickwick, for its jukebox...
Last week few U.S. citizens got through the week without hearing the melody of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 at least once. Seven recordings of a sugared-to-taste version called Full Moon and Empty Arms were steady jukebox nickel-pullers. The theme was played more or less steadily through two current cinemas (Hollywood's Holiday in Mexico, England's Brief Encounter). Last week, Republic's I've Always Loved You made it three (see CINEMA...
Fast rising in U.S. jukebox popularity this week is a macabre little ditty about a woman's right to kill a man with a frying pan, since he was "nobody but my husband." Sung by Ella (A Tisket, a Tasket) Fitzgerald, Stone Cold Dead in the Market has sold over half a million records. It is climbing into the big ten on the Hit Parade even though it is banned on two networks-NBC and ABC-because murder is nothing to brag about...
Wrong Bus. In Pittsburgh, officials of the American Bus Lines ordered summary removal of the latest addition to the terminal's jukebox: Love on a Greyhound...