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...interest of hip young customers, the moguls of the apparel industry have been turning to younger designers, both black and white-and, some blacks say, ripping off the flamboyant styles that have long been part of ghetto life. Says Susan Taylor, black fashion editor of Essence magazine: "I could swear that the white folks on Seventh Avenue have been taking tours up in Harlem to see what people are wearing, then taking it back and mass producing...
...remember how he would come home after work. He would be tired and have a hungry gut. He would complain that Mom was not feeding my younger brother or him or me. Mom would shout. Dad would swear, and my younger brother would cry. Mom and Dad threw things at each other. I could hear them even though I was in the bedroom and my pillow was over my ears. I tried to think about pretty Donna Reed while Dad shouted and swore...
...Pointe, Mich. A vaudeville-house owner who switched to radio at the start of the Depression, Trendle sought to turn his struggling Detroit station into a moneymaker with a program that would be "good, clean and long-lived." Hence his Masked Rider of the Plains didn't smoke, swear, drink, fool with women or even kill the bad guys; he did endure and make a fortune for Trendle. The Lone Ranger lasted 20 first-run years on radio and twelve on television, and the show's popularity inspired Trendle to create two more true-blue heroes: The Green...
...years ago, there were funny stories going around about George Haywood. People saw him jumping around his living room slapping happily at his friends. Others swear that George persisted in trying to entice them up to his Holworthy living room for a private, how shall we say it, tete-a-tete. The truth of these rumors is uncertain, but it is well known (among those who know) that George is one of the most enthusiastic of Harvard's small band of boxing enthusiasts...
...orders in all your actions; do not take a single needle or piece of thread from the masses; turn in everything captured), and the eight points for attention (speak politely; pay fairly for what you buy; return everything you borrow; pay for anything you damage; do not hit or swear at people; do not damage crops; do not take liberties with women; do not ill-treat captives). Keng makes no direct mention of the U.S. or of the social imperialists (the Russians), but his line is tough. "The danger of world war still exists, and the people should be prepared...