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Situation in Hand. Near Camp Lejeune, N.C., Acting Marine Sergeant Bruce K. Moore was fined $25 for spanking an eight-year-old neighborhood hellion merely because the lad had conked Moore on the head with a mud ball, tossed rocks at Moore's dog, got mud all over Mrs. Moore's newly washed sheets, gleefully winged stones into the toilet of the Moore apartment...
Most of the time, that is as far as campus romance goes. Once in a while a more venturesome lad may persuade a girl to meet him furtively in the "family room" of a coffee shop, where the daring couple can engage in the temple-pounding excitement of holding hands. More often, even an invitation to a coffeehouse is nothing but male braggadocio. Says one Karachi coed: "I know of several instances where a girl suddenly accepted such an invitation and the poor embarrassed fellow didn't know what...
...Gonna Get Married (Lloyd Price; ABC-Paramount). The problem here is a lad who "may be too young to get married, but not too young to hide an achin' heart." Mother and son fight it out to a rocking draw just short of the altar...
...Three Bells (The Browns; RCA). One of the nation's top-selling ballads recounts in lugubrious accents the short, unhappy life of a mountain lad named Little Jimmy Brown ("Just a lonely bell was ringing/In the little village town/ 'Twas farewell it was ringing/For Little Jimmy Brown"). Hearts and faded flowers...
...seems important for a man and woman to get along." Tab follows her there, mumbles that he loves her. But Sanders also thinks highly of her, proposes marriage, offers her a name "that's regarded rather like being named Windsor in England." Will she take the baby-faced lad, or will she marry the devoted gentleman with vaults of gold? Sanders gracefully steps aside to allow her to come to her decision, but Tab leans forward again-in Central Park, Staten Island and Grand Central Station-and displays those bald eyeballs. Meekly Sophia once more obeys the scriptwriter...