Word: teens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will television affect U.S. family life? "It will re-cement it," insists CBS's Vice President Adrian Murphy. "I talked with a man who had seen his teen-age daughter for the first time in two months. He bought a set, and now she brings her boy friends home." At first television's novelty value was so high that it some times altered the usual standards of hospitality. Many TV owners, faced with a houseful of curious friends & neighbors, required regulars to bring their own refreshments...
...heard asking for some "really sincere" recordings. "I looked," said Polan, "and it was a perfect Junior Miss." It was, indeed. Barbara played a supporting role in the cinema version of Junior Miss, has grown up into an accept able lead. She wallows in a bubblegumbo of teen-talk ("Johnny had on a suede coat that just wouldn't quit!"), is really sincere about her role. She longs to become "a great actress - I want so to be an actress!" With this objective, she scorns reading from the script: "I memorize...
Fast Friends. In Toronto, the University of Toronto newspaper reported a local shocker: the parents of a teen-age girl, eavesdropping on daughter's goodnight to her beau, came a-running downstairs when they heard her scream, discovered that the young lovers had got their dental braces tangled...
...Kansas City police rounded up a gang of teen-agers who had kept motorists in a state of nerves for two months by I) driving slowly along downtown streets knocking windows out of parked cars with hammers, and 2) stealing machines and using them for "automobile jousts." Jousts were fought at a school ground by youths who drove two stolen cars at each other with the hand throttles open, leaped out seconds before the machines collided...
...President, in fact, behaved noticeably like a candidate for reelection. He kissed no babies, but he welcomed four teen-age girls who had won a nationwide contest for radio talks on democracy (see cut). He posed with some roadbuilders and was invited to their convention...