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...fans he ripped his pants straddling his big fiddle, played on anyway. Haley's disk of Rock Around the Clock has become the first record to sell a million copies in Great Britain. And even the more dignified of the British papers have stopped viewing him with sober-faced alarm. Said the Times last week: "Mr. Haley pounds his guitar without mercy . . . But there is nothing sentimental or morbid about his songs. His pelvis wriggles, not with care (as does that of his rival Mr. Presley) but with purest joie de vivre...
...many churchmen St. John Bosco's experience might seem all in the day's work-and not only in Bosco's Italy. Even in supposedly sober England, rectories appear hardly less haunted than castles. Perhaps the greatest expert on those teasing, furniture-tossing, ructious ghosts called poltergeists was the late British Jesuit, Father Herbert Thurston, who wrote two books and various pamphlets on the subject. Just published are two more notable studies by Roman Catholics: Shane Leslie's Ghost Book (Sheed & Ward; $3) and Occult Phenomena, by Father Alois Wiesinger, an Austrian Trappist (Newman Press...
...office's chief problems is that not enough people know what, where, or how it operates. Some students think of Student Placement as a place to pick up a job as a dishwasher at Leverett rather than a sober conference with Crooks or Huntington about a future vocation. For this and other reasons, the Office originated the Career Conferences in 1948 which have gone a long way to bring Student Placement before the eyes of the student...
...sober, serious-minded young hero on the screen, Huang was equally sober and serious in his private life. As a rising star in Shanghai, he spent his evenings studying medicine instead of going to nightclubs, and throughout his career preferred a good book to an evening on the town. He had not married. "Who," the Chinese fan magazines asked over and over again, "would be the lucky girl...
...Hope happily hammed up the job of host, and got the tournament off to a relaxed start from which, as usual, it never recovered. When Orchestra Leader Phil Harris outdrove him, Hope glowered at his red-capped, red-socked opponent and tried some freestyle gamesmanship. "You've turned sober on me," he accused Harris darkly...