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...Alfred Kinsey, an effective advance man for his Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, talked about his favorite subject to an overflow audience of women reporters, Author-Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner (a Kinsey interviewee) and a scattering of interested males at a Women's National Press Club luncheon in Washington. Ordinarily a solemn man, Kinsey proved to be an old tease when the girls got going on questions. What age group prefers sleeping in the nude? asked a woman from Woman's Wear Daily. Kinsey restated the question to his own liking -"Should the manufacturers of clothes...
...overflow crowd of reporters, photographers and Congressmen jammed the committee room for the crucial hearing before the Rules Committee. The session was delayed for 47 minutes while Martin, Majority Leader Charles Halleck and Rules Committee Chairman Leo Allen talked to G.O.P. committee members in Allen's private office, trying to nail down a majority vote. Tennessee's Carroll
Last week, swinging homeward through Denver and Chicago, the traveling Bostonians began to think that perhaps the heathen west of the mountains were more eager for salvation than the faithful at home. "They just seem to explode with the music, here in the West," said a percussionist after an overflow concert in Provo. Said a clarinetist, thinking of the many times that Southern and Western audiences had given the Bostonians standing ovations: "Back home, they take us so much more for granted...
...Tower Theater in downtown Atlanta, an overflow crowd spilled into the orchestra pit, backed up into the aisles; outside, latecomers shoved at the doors. The show had barely got underway when the night was rent by keening sirens, and fire engines roared to the theater entrance...
Since all House must now also accommodate their share of the overflow that normally would be in Claverly--205 men this spring--a popular house might get a disproportionate number of first-choices, Watson explained. For example, Lowell has 136 vacancies, but with the added share of overflow, 29 men, its total would...