Word: teens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says, the following reaction : 1 ) Six proposals of marriage, 2) an offer of a date for the Army-Navy football game from a West Point cadet, 3) a score of letters and telegrams on miscellaneous subjects, 4) a visit from a Hollywood representative to discuss a movie about a teen-age girl columnist. Miss Daly thinks that she would like to be technical adviser for that...
...Brooklyn theater last week, 4,000 junior high school students booed Russia's Andrei Vishinsky and warmly cheered U.S. Delegate Warren Austin. Except for these partisan outbursts, the teen-agers found the long speeches and static drama of the specially arranged telecast of United Nations in Action (weekdays, 11 a.m. & 3 p.m., CBS-TV) neither so funny as Milton Berle nor so exciting as baseball. "Of course," one 14-year-old conceded, "baseball is more known, because it's older than the United Nations...
...entertainment, the United Nations was shaping up as better than anything else on daytime television. Dramatically, the chief flaw was still the tendency of the opposing orators to repeat their arguments over & over again. As one of the Brooklyn teen-agers complained: "They just say what they think or what their country thinks, but they don't listen to anyone else. Once a person finishes talking, he goes to sleep already. He just listens to his own side and thinks he's right all the time...
Last week, on the same program, Godfrey was inclined to forgive the swoon-happy teen-agers because he had spotted the real villain. He announced that "an over-zealous publicity man was the guy who . . . got 30 or 40 of them right down in the front row and told them that they should agitate and squeal and holler . . ." Then, presenting Bill Lawrence ("the boy you love so much"), Godfrey made one final plea: "He loves your appreciation, but you don't have to squeal. Just applaud him when he gets through...
...clear across the runways of Rome's Ciampino airport last week came the brassy Dixieland chatter of Muskrat Ramble, swung by "The Roman New Orleans Band." Teen-age Italian hepcats, backed by placards of "Welcome Louie," were beating out a solid welcome for American Jazz Potentate Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong and his All-Stars.* On the last lap of his first grand European tour since 1935, Satchmo had found solid welcomes and solid houses wherever he landed. In Stockholm, 40,000 fans welcomed him at the airport; thousands waited in line all night to get tickets for his concert. Stockholm...