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...childhood, beginning career and burgeoning romance marked it inimitably as a young women's dormitory. Around the two-story apartment on Chicago's far South Side, Teddy bears stood button-eyed vigil over dressers festooned with framed pictures of parents and boy friends. Among the souvenirs of tender evenings past was a long-empty champagne bottle. In the three upstairs bedrooms lined with bunks, the closets were crammed with party dresses. In one bedroom, a postcard was fondly pinned to a notice board: "Some day before you know it, school will be over with. It's pretty...
...Tender Foot. Many a German automobile has a name-Mausi, Susi, Lotte and Hannchen are among the most popular-and car owners are usually solicitous to a fault with their mobile mistresses. "When I brake, I do it carefully, tenderly, not to hurt it," says Writer Dietrich Mummendey, 36, "A car has to be treated carefully, just like a woman...
...suggests Campbell, is a disease of New York, "a city which is a psychological calamity and which has no connection with the land America." In a very real way, the land America prefers Humphrey Bogart and James Bond. Bogart demonstrates the belief that a man can be tough but tender, ugly but sexy. The Bond syndrome suggests a yearning for the old-fashioned action hero, free from conventional fetters. Says Sociologist Marshall Fishwick of the University of Delaware: "The playboy is a cowboy who has just discovered woman...
Ryun has run faster since. Distance runners traditionally do not reach their peak before their mid-20s-Britain's Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4-min. barrier in 1954, and France's Michel Jazy, the current record holder, is 30. Ryun, at the tender age of 19, is already the second-fastest miler in history. In this month's Compton Invitational track meet at Los Angeles, he sped the distance in 3 min. 53.7 sec.-just .1 sec. off Jazy's world record. Afterward, he complained mildly that the official who was supposed...
DEAR JOHN. Swedish Director Lars Magnus Lindgren bases his tender, lusty lesson in love on the urgent biochemistry between a roaming sailor (Jarl Kulle) and a girl (Christina Schollin) having a weekend fling...