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...radio station offers coloring books as a tie-in promotion for sponsors. Cousin Brucie ("I really believe everyone's my cousin") Morrow, 31, top rock jockey for Manhattan's WABC, has formed a "Cousin Brucie's Pillow Talk Club" for the station's 20,000 sub-teen listeners who go beddie-bye with their transistor radios. "They're my little itty-bitty ones," drools Brucie. "Kids used to go to bed with teddy bears," he says. "Now they go to bed with...
...care how close I get as long as I don't get too big. In the North, they don't care how big I get as long as I don't get too close." Despite the disappearance of the old ethnic comedy, though, some sub rosa jokes still thrive, on the assumption that only a really minor minority lacks the strength to fight or picket. The current favorite is the Polish joke, which ranges from harmless slap to unpleasant slur: Q. Why are there so few Polish suicides? A. It's not easy to get killed...
...last week's International Diamond Trophy races, sub-zero temperatures had turned the Mount Van Hoevenberg course so hard and slick that the sleds' runners would not bite into the ice, tended to slip sideways on the turns. Conditions were particularly bad at the 13th and 14th turns-known as the Zig-Zag -where a wooden superstructure was installed to keep the careening sleds from shooting right over the banking. As the four-man competition got under way, a U.S. sled overturned at the Zig-Zag, injuring two of the crew. At that, the wife of the next...
Left-Wing Boy Scout. In Rexroth's world, people call him "Duke," a term used in hobo jungles for the classy fellow in a sub-society of declassed men. "It's no great compliment," says Rexroth. "The most affected girl in a whorehouse is usually called 'Duchess...
...duke, professor and poet, Rexroth functioned magnificently in the sub-worlds of Chicago, Greenwich Village and the syndicalist meeting halls of Seattle, until he came at last to the big rock candy mountains of San Francisco. From the time he was an eagle scout in Toledo, Ohio-operating, he claims, from what must have been the only left-wing gangsterized troop in America-Rexroth's big German-American farm boy's face shone with the vocation of the radical outsider proud of belonging to people who have no belongings. Whether he was selling snake oil to farmers...