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...night last December, Emma Miller, 18, stole out of her parents' house, wearing a sinful pink blouse and a blue skirt. She got a lift into town and eventually found a job as a houseworker. One Sunday afternoon last month, her friend Anna Yoder, 18, turned up at Emma's apartment in an Amish bonnet and with a yen to cut loose, too. "I cut her hair and washed . . . and set it," said Emma. "I put makeup on her and dressed her in my clothes...
Cheerfully battling a brisk breeze at London Airport for mastery of her smart, flared skirt, Britain's 22-year-old Princess Margaret seemed singularly free of care as she returned home from Africa with her mother last week. But in their papers and over their teacups, her sister's subjects, with rising heat, were arguing the pros & cons of a possible marriage between her and 38-year-old R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend (TIME, July 20), now safely banished to an office in the British embassy at Brussels. There was still no official or royal-family confirmation...
...College. Drawn from essays on the assigned topic: "Why I Hesitate to be a Christian," the quotes range from doubts of Christ's divinity to condemnation of Christian hypocrisy. The essay topic is effective in bringing out indiotmens gods rule the campus. But I wonder whether it doesn't skirt the attitude towards religion most common among college students simply that of apathy. I think most students have surrendered less to an ism critical of Faith than to a vague or abstract interest in religion hard to distinguish from disinterest...
...simpler Macfadden tenets included the harem skirt, grass-eating, boxing with the feet, having babies without doctors standing on your head to make your hair grow." But all these techniques were useless unless the patient practiced the Master's main belief-"that . . . there is but one disease: impurity of the blood" for which there was but one cure-to stop eating and give the famished body a chance to consume its own diseased tissues. Not that the Master objected to patients purchasing his "Isham's California Waters of Life" for "dissolving and washing away cancer, and curing paralysis...
...sketches and songs, is almost consistently funny. After ridding himself of a tired bopster routine, he slides into his satires: sharp, clever jibes at Truman Capote, Arthur Miller, and Gian-Carlo Menotti. Musically, however, the top parody is Alice Ghostly's "Boston Beguine." In a baggy sweater and skirt, Miss Ghostly clatters about the stage in a primitive tango, screeching of her romance with a Harvard man in Boston's "native quarter." The fourth in a talented quarter is Robert Clary, a 14-ounce French import, who mugs through another bouncy tune, "I'm in Love With Miss Logan." Apparently...