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Anita Loos, literary executor of the golddigger (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), threw up her hands at the wild younger generation, came out for more parental discipline-"you ought to smack him in the puss." She considered bobby-soxers inferior to flappers. "The flappers washed their underwear," said she. "They were neat, sexy, appealing and clean. The bobby-soxers are gross . . . they are not alluring...
That all of them will return with converts is highly doubtful. Even if they do, there is still Russia, whose iron curtain reaches up to the stratosphere. Although Russian territory is smack in the middle of many proposed U.S. round-the-world routes. U.S.-Russian negotiations are at a standstill...
Fearful lest history's pudding smack too bitterly of the gall, wormwood and Bromo-Seltzer dropped into it by PM Editor Ralph Ingersoll's war report, Top Secret* (TIME, April 22), Correspondent Clifford last week began adding his own salty seasoning...
Cosmic rays are not only hard to observe but hard to understand. Dr. Swann believes they are protons and positively charged helium atoms which smack into the earth's atmosphere at enormous speeds. Where they come from, no one knows for sure...
Shumei Okawa, onetime Manchurian railway official, carried comic indifference into broad buffoonery. He-interrupted proceedings by opening his crumpled shirt and rubbing his scrawny chest. Although a U.S. lieutenant colonel was assigned to watch him, Okawa slyly outwitted him, twice darted from his chair to smack startled Tojo's gleaming pate. Let out of court for a sanity test, he babbled in high-pitched English: "I don't like the U.S.; America is democrazy...