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...Loses Legs. Some style books draw exquisitely fine beads on proper form. The Salt Lake City Tribune explains the distinction between three cupfuls of sugar and three cups full of sugar, and softly suggests the typographical peril in such words as "shot, suit, short, shift, skit, etc." The Detroit News confidently calls a girl a girl until she reaches 21, when she becomes a woman; at 17 a boy becomes a youth, at 21 a man. "Beware of such relative descriptions as elderly, aged or old," says the Washington Post and Times Herald. "Few men under 70 would appreciate those...
...demonstrations are an attempt by student integration leaders to expand their activities, which have heretofore been limited to lunch counter skit-ins. Students at the University of Texas began protesting local segregation at movie theatres early in December, and the movement has spread to campuses all over the South...
...Switchblade Bess, at least, has inspired moments. If much of Show Girl rather smacks of family jokes, it is at any rate a well-known family-Marlene Dietrich, Sophie Tucker, Judy Garland-and full of family bluntness. And in Show Girl's freshest idea for a skit, Miss Channing and Munshin play the Lunts fussing like two Hausfrauen over the theater named after them...
...times a day a Broadway cast of 50 went through their singing, dancing paces last week as a musical skit called The Magic Man opened General Motors' 1961 Motorama of 36 new cars at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Not in the show were some cheery lines spoken by short (5 ft. 8 in.), grey-haired Frederic Garrett Donner, 58, General Motors' board chairman and its chief executive since 1958. The world's largest industrial corporation, announced Donner, plans to spend $1.25 billion next year to expand and develop its worldwide (21 countries) auto empire, testifying...
...tried to keep up with them. They had hardly arrived at the L.B.J. Ranch for a rest before the Kennedy girls had picked teams for water polo, run through a touch-football game and corralled survivors for a tug of war. By dinnertime they were ready with a skit spoofing the lines they had fluffed along the way. A lone male reporter, almost dismembered during the tug of war, sighed dolefully about the campaign ahead: "If these are the women, what can the men be like...