Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sacher: "Hey, you Zack, shut your mouth, you dirty stool pigeon...
...polio is spread is still the No. 1 puzzle. Because the polio virus is found in large amounts in the digestive tract, investigators now think that its chief invasion route is the mouth, probably in contaminated food. Flies are known to carry the virus. But dusting cities with DDT does not seem to stop epidemics...
...babies to reach school age. Babies who passed their infancy in these hectic times, warned an Ohio psychologist, are apt to be jittery about such a violent novelty as school. Dr. Clare W. Graves of Western Reserve University advised parents to watch for such signs of nervous tension as mouth-tugging and hair-pulling. After a couple of weeks in school, kindergartners are apt to go on talking jags; the only thing for parents to do then, said Dr. Graves, is to grit their teeth and listen sympathetically...
...inclined to believe that this is the worst of the lot. He loves poetry-obviously-yet all he can do is to make it sound ridiculous. 'Listen to this, boys ' he says. 'Isn't it beautiful?' And he proceeds to quack or mouth or bleat out something which is a travesty of the beauty which has truly moved him. ... He is addicted to giving classes poems to learn by heart . . . I was put off Milton for years by a fool who made me learn the sonnet On His Blindness when I was eleven...
Terrific Soul. Dean of the Class of 1947 is Bing-bald Buddy Clark, 35. In the late '30s, Buddy was well up into the second team of U.S. crooners, but his big mouth spoiled it all. Says one radio producer: "He'd louse up a song right on the air. You'd ask him why. Oh, he just felt like it." When Buddy got out of the Army in 1945, he was soberer, had a "new, terrific soul" in his voice. The Carnation program took a gamble on him (Mon. 10 p.m., NBC), and a Clark record...