Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Skow is to be highly commended, on the whole, for a job admirably well done despite the unfortunate misnomer of "scatologer" in reference to Holden Caulfield. The kid practically tells you that he's talking to you like you were some goddam long-lost buddy or something, and naturally he's not going to sound like he was talking to those nuns...
...Parent Trap. The delightful story of teen-aged twins who try to kid their divorced parents into remarrying-both twins played by Hayley Mills, biggest child star since Temple and a better actress than Shirley...
...reading their racing forms. Oklahoma oilmen in neatly tailored riding pants shared tacos and tamales with their Dior dressed wives. Track police sported Stetsons and packed six-guns, consciously copying the deputy marshals who ruled the tiny (pop. 2,500) town in the bad old days when Billy the Kid roamed the nearby Sacramento Mountains. The race that put Ruidoso Downs on the prod was last week's running of the 400-yd., $202,425 All-American Futurity-Kentucky Derby of quarterhorse racing and, dollar for distance, the richest horse race in the world...
Unlike Zooey and the rest, Sonny was anything but a Quiz Kid. His grades at public schools in Manhattan's Upper West Side were mostly Bs, but arithmetic baffled him. His IQ test score was merely average at 104, and his deportment was sometimes poor. The tall, skinny boy had a better time of it at Camp Wigwam in Harrison, Me., where, at eleven, he played a fair game of tennis, made friends readily, and was voted "the most popular actor...
...year later. A friend who knew Sonny then recalled that "he wanted to do unconventional things. For hours, no one in the family knew where he was or what he was doing; he just showed up for meals. He was a nice boy, but he was the kind of kid who, if you wanted to have a card game, wouldn't join...