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Falling asleep again, as he must do every night, no matter how he postpones it, Senior dreams of his typist, a nimble lass who will probably leave out a paragraph or forget the carbon. Or, worst of all, he tosses with the dream of the Great Confrontation, the dream where he passes through life talking to friends, making love, delivering speeches, always searching in vain for the appropriate quote from his intensive study of the complete works of Hamlin Garland...
...these four English boys and the phenomenon of Elvis Presley or Frank Sinatra in his swooner phase. Presley made his pelvis central to his act, and the screams of his admirers were straight from the raunch. Sinatra's Adam's appie bobbed in Morse code, and no lass misread the message...
...silk-bedecked International Debutante Ball took a full hour before things finally settled down to dancing (the twist was Out, the charleston In). But no one seemed to mind as the girls from 12 foreign lands and 13 American states put on their own beauty contest-each lass escorted by assigned service-academy cadets and personally chosen Ivy League types. Everybody's favorite foreign find was Scotland's bonnie Marney Jane Bulman, 19, and domestically, New Jersey came out very nicely, thank you, with both its debs Gretchen Boyer, 18, and Janet Coates, 18. Even so, the friendly...
Into this household comes Nancy, an innocent country lass who's looking for the YWCA. Tolen tells Colin that he will "show how it's done" by seducing her immediately. His attempts are frustrated first by Tom's antics, and then by Colin, who desperately wants to "make her myself." Eventually, of course, he does...
...bulbous nose glows whenever he has a snootful, which is nearly every night. He has no discernible trade and lives on the dole as if he had earned it. He is selfish, improvident, coarse, arrogant and bullying. "Don't stand out there in the cold, lass," he says to his sister-in-law, come to pay a visit. "Buzz off." His name is Andy Capp, and he is the newest folk hero of the comic strips...