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...away from Otaru, in a bumpy California crossroads hamlet called Cressy (pop. 400), chunky little Chiyoko Suzuki began her rehearsals for Flower Drum just 28 years ago. Youngest of a fair-sized Japanese-American family (a brother twelve years older, and two sisters, eight and ten years older), "Chiby" (Squirt) Suzuki was a loner from the start-a kid who seemed to figure she was expected to take care of herself. She went to a two-room schoolhouse, rode horses bareback, learned to swim in irrigation canals on her father's 100-acre farm, and talked Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: The Girls on Grant Avenue | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...find Joy Buzzers, Trick Squirt Badges, Rubber Hunting Knives, Soap Cigars, Soap Pickles and Soap Chocolates, Exploding Fountain Pens, Plate Palpitators, and Shoe Squeakers. There are Imitation Gold Teeth, Cuckoo Clothes Brushes, Rubber Swollen Thumbs, Bunged Up Eyes and Joke Teeth and Tongues. There are, of course, Itching Powders, Jumping Fleas, Crying Towels and Whoopee Cushions. There is soap that turns your face black, soap that is rubber, cheese that is soap, and cigars that are cheese. There are Snake Candy and Jam Jars. There are Shimmy Inspector Badges. There are Exploding Cigar Boxes, Agitating Match Boxes, and Chameleon Dice...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: From a Kazoo Kulture To Wheaties Democracy | 12/4/1958 | See Source »

...Tigers racked up 284 kills and 300 probables, in exchange for twelve pilots, two crew chiefs and 21 planes. He rewrote the book of aerial combat, insisting on two-plane teams, dropping the first fire bombs on the inflammable architecture of the East, coaching his sky raiders to dive, squirt, pass and run. He lived on rice and red ants, coffee and cigarettes; he dwelt in mud and bamboo; he dressed in shorts and a billed, battered, nondescript cap. "Old Leatherface,'' the Chinese fondly called him, and guarded his precious store of gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Hooded Falcon | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...with a Gun. "The Lord called me into the ministry and the church called me away from it," says Franklin Clark Fry. "This is a deep psychological problem for me. I would much rather have a pastorate than have to squirt grease into ecclesiastical machinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Lutheran | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...afficionados and the just plain artsy craftsy have taken to wine bags in recent years. Just a little squeeze and some accurate aim, and a tasty squirt is obtained. The bag is sloppy for the novice, however, and even the experts frown at the leathery taste the wine soon acquires...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: More Sedate Topers Shun Cider Jugs | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

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