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...Misspent Youth. To their amusement, only Pennsylvania could recall the famous 1946 Ajax song ("Use Ajax, bumm, bumm, the foaming cleanser . . . "). To the question, "What flavor ice cream did Harpo Marx sell in A Day at the Races", the judges ruled out Princeton's "tutti-frutti" for Yale's more colorful and accurate "tootsi-frootsi...
...credits his success entirely to "my garbage-filled mind." But for Inventor Goodgold, the essence of Trivia is not so much in the facts themselves as the nostalgic recognition they evoke. "Trivia is concerned with tugging at the heartstrings," says Goodgold. "It's enjoyed by those who have misspent their youth and don't want to let it go. It's the least common cultural denominator...
Hunter's story is based loosely on a novel by Sax Rohmer, the creator of the formidable Fu Manchu. Fu, you may recall if your youth was as misspent as mine, was a satanic supermind who ran a terrorist organization called the Si Fan, "to which fully one-third of the world's colored races belong," and while he never quite achieved the complete global domination he so earnestly sought, Fu Manchu sure came close as dammit on a number of occasions...
...think, too bloody frank." Combat reporting has its own special problems, of course, not the least of which is the danger. Eight correspondents have died, a dozen have been seriously wounded, and nearly 100 have been nicked. Sheer endurance is a useful skill. "You pay dearly for a misspent life of martinis and cigarettes," says New York Timesman Charles Mohr. "And when you finally do arrive, there is the possibility that you will find Peter Arnett or Horst Faas of A.P. there ahead...
...Lord is a costume epic with an unusual theme. Its hero, quite as usual, is Charlton Heston, playing a misspent 11th-century knight who falls heir to a small and dreary Norman fief on the coast of the North Sea. "There's a strangeness in this place," Heston remarks. And his servant Richard Boone nods sagely, like a man who knows a godforsaken frontier town when he sees one. Heston's castle is a tacky stronghold, one lone tower surrounded by sullen villagers and under constant threat of attack by swarms of large blond barbarians wearing identical wigs...