Word: teens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Easing in to the dock at Yorktown, Va., Harry Truman had one small reminder of the political storms to come. The Williamsburg was overtaken by a small runabout carrying a dozen teen-age boys and girls alternately shouting "Hurrah for Thurmond!" and singing Dixie...
...Date with Judy (MGM) features a song called Strictly on the Corny Side, which might serve as the movie's theme song. Date has a few moments of appealing teen-age humor, but most of it is overcomplicated plot about lovestruck adolescents and their immature parents. The juveniles (Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Scotty Beckett, Robert Stack) may be forgiven for acting like ambitious hams in a high-school play, but the hardened adult "troupers (Wallace Beery, Leon Ames, Carmen Miranda) also suffer repeated attacks of squirming coyness. Most of the cast, too, is larded over with a fiery...
...nation's youth were necking in drive-in movies instead of in shady lanes; teen-agers in Indianapolis referred to them as "passion pits." Iowa's 4-H girls got new uniforms-blue-green zipper dresses with short balloon sleeves-to replace their antiquated, long-sleeved, blue middy outfits. Los Angeles mothers complained that their offspring not only stayed awake until all hours because of daylight-saving time, but howled for refreshments. They asked the city council to draft an ordinance putting a 9 o'clock curfew on the tinkling bells of Good Humor wagons...
...Honest Youths. This san-pu-kuan stretch is nearly ten miles long. Then the refugees enter Communist lines. They are inspected by the Communist Children Corps, grim-eyed, incorruptible teen-agers clad in drab uniforms and armed with red-tasseled spears. The juvenile corpsmen reject all wheedling words or hints of bribes. "We Communist youth are honest," they chant. "We don't go for sly words in our liberated territory...
...been just 20 years since four teen-age students at London's Royal Academy of Music had gone together to a concert of Belgium's famed Pro Arte String Quartet, of which Maas was the cellist. They came away determined to form a quartet of their own. The four-Violinists Sidney Griller and Jack O'Brien, Cellist Colin Hampton and Violist Philip Burton-decided over a pint of beer that the way to become a quartet was to live together, break all family ties, refuse engagements to play separately...