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...Vassar who is not identifiable by tweed; Helena, impeccably educated from birth by a cultivated clubwoman mother; Polly, whose father has gone "loony" after the crash of '29; Kay, beautiful and serious, most responsive to the conscience of The Group; Priss, hereditary Vassar, destined for social work; Pokey, rich and horsy; Lakey, "the Mona Lisa of the Smoking Room," who has everything. Rich, beautiful and haughty, Lakey has a taste in clothes, people and ideas that is absolute...
...Hokey Pokey Cotton Candy machine is a battery-operated, 16-in. miniature of the ones at the circus, is apt to get hands even stickier. Hasbro; $14-95. > Games are getting down to business, and Square Mile is an exercise in land development for future Zeckendorfs. Taking up where Monopoly left off, Square Mile plants industrial parks, housing developments and shopping centers amid forests and swamps with a singleness of purpose designed to make Secretary Udall quake in his hiking shoes. Milton Bradley...
Anne J. d'Harnoncourt '65 taught "American Tribal Dancing," which featured the Bunny-hop and Hokey-Pokey. During the summer, the program's emphasis is on community centers, where men, women, and children too young for government schools can learn valuable skills, prominent among which is English. A popular course offered to Tanganyikans this summer was the "direct method" of teaching English, originated by Professor I.A. Richards...
...Austria. Smilin' Jack, the aerial barnstormer, smiles no more-he is doing his level best to keep the Russians from sabotaging the U.S. space effort. Winnie Winkle went to Moscow as a fashionable emissary of the U.S. Department of Commerce; alas, she wound up in the Russian pokey steaming away time in the laundry on trumped-up charges of espionage...
...five or six years younger than you people said. It's bad enough to be 40, let alone the age you claim." In 1960, Secretary Paperman refused to turn over certain of Goldfine's tax records to the Internal Revenue Service and served ten days in pokey for her loyalty. But this time, it was whispered, Mildred had sung and sung to the federal investigators, naming names and testifying to the length of 120 pages...