Word: schoolgirlisms
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With all the hesitancy of a schoolgirl on her first date, the British government last week prepared to embrace commercial TV. But before anyone's hair could get mussed, the government laid down strict rules of conduct in a white paper: 1) All TV stations accepting commercials must be owned and operated by a public corporation similar to the existing British Broadcasting Corp. 2) The new corporation will sell time to private companies, and they, in turn, may sell advertising. 3) The corporation has the right to examine all scripts in advance, to forbid the broadcasting of "specified classes...
...switchboard, "I am very nearly better." Miss Norway repeatedly tried to sneak out of her hotel to have dates-a direct violation of the contest rules-but was foiled each time by guards stationed in the lobby. She stamped her sharp heels and railed against being treated like a schoolgirl. Miss U.S.A. was actually Miss Runner-Up U.S.A., the real Miss U.S.A. being in another corner of the planet on business connected with a contest for Miss Universe of 1953. Miss Ceylon discomfited the contest director by proving, on arrival, to be Mrs. Ceylon. The director wouldn't even...
...trying too hard. "I didn't get my laugh," she would say in distress to a fellow actor. "What did I do wrong?" At the end of the first week, when her name went up in lights on the Fulton marquee, Audrey darted across the street like a schoolgirl to have a look. Then, in sudden solemnity, she sighed: "Oh dear, and I've still got to learn...
...main street of the Ruhr Valley city of Gelsenkirchen one morning last week, a schoolgirl marched up to a young man and popped an odd sort of question. "Herr Huett," said she, "what about Goethe's Prometheus?" Without a moment's hesitation, the young man threw back his head and began to recite...
When the young man with the excellent memory had finished, the schoolgirl slipped him two pfennigs, and with her morning's lesson safely in mind, skipped happily off to school. Thereupon, Horst Eberhard Huett, 22, continued on his way in search of another customer, another question-and more pfennigs...