Word: kids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funniest of the nonsensical interludes. When the young people (Ginny Simms and Robert Paige) settle themselves on a park bench for what promises to be a familiar lovers' scene, up pops Frisco from behind the bench with an expression of terrible pain on his face. He proceeds to kid the cooing with a disrespect for the romantic routine that should make this scene worth the price of admission to moviegoers who are weary of screen mush...
When he was just a kid, Roy Beebe decided that illness was unnecessary. He resolved to spend his life hunting for a cureall. In 1910 he saw Halley's comet through a homemade telescope and decided that human ailments are caused by static. He had quit school after the fourth grade and thus had no scientific prejudices. It was obvious to him that cosmic rays would clean static out of the human system and thus end all ills...
...barber who found there was money in "sex worship" and later took up Yoga, the Hindu art of controlling mind through muscle-(he trained Prize Fighter Lou Nova for his bout with Joe Louis). Oom said he could help Junior for a "membership fee" of $125. His method: "We kid people out of being grouchy...
...cartoon in the weekly Tribune showed a British kid asking a G.I.: "Any gum, chum, on a strictly longterm, interest-free, dollar-loan basis...
...Town King. Young (42) Mr. Ruskin, no violet for modesty, attributes his success to his sharp, morning-glory wits. He likes to remember that he graduated from eighth grade at the age of ten years and nine months, from high school at 14 ("I would have been a quiz kid"). He became an apprentice at Chicago's high-class, high-priced Sargent's drugstore (today he owns half of it). He quit to take a crack at almost everything else, even spent 18 months in Italy studying to be an opera tenor, eventually decided that...