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...Warren is out there watching what she thought was going to be a quiet performance this morning. Those kids of mine are going to be surprised." At the entrance to the hall, his three young daughters excitedly flung themselves on him, smeared his long upper lip and cheek with lipstick. He rushed on to the rostrum. Said Earl Warren: "I know what it feels like to get hit by a streetcar...
Whiskers & Lipstick. Whatever self-consciousness TV induced may have had a good effect on public manners. Only one drunk was spotted by the camera. Oratory, for the most part, was less protracted than usual. Radio, said Alf Landon, had trimmed convention speeches down by two-thirds; he looked for television to cut it down another third...
...purists were fighting uphill. Most of Quebec's women say "lipstick" for rouge a levres, and "Cutex" (a trade name) for any nail polish-vernis a angles. In the sports arena, their menfolk scream: L'arbitre est un robber! A prizefight announcer cries: Le champion a knockoute son adversaire. And French Canadians of both sexes grin as they say II faut se watcher...
Duty, Not Reward. To keep the girls from outspending each other, the headmistress dresses them in green jumpers and cotton dresses. Lipstick, smoking, furs and Washington charge accounts are forbidden. So are unchaperoned dates...
...minded babies while mothers cast their ballots. Some Communist members of the election boards tried, despite hawk-eyed poll watchers of the major parties, to invalidate ballots-the slightest blemish on a ballot was enough for the purpose. (One Italian columnist implored his female readers to remove their lipstick before wetting the flap of the ballot "just as if you were giving a little kiss to a man with a suspicious wife...