Word: totem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people, going to a Symphony concert is a plain and simple evil, and not even a necessary one--like sending birthday presents to great-aunts. But more than a few Harvard jitter-bugs and Totem Pole devotees have echoed the words of one Freshman who, on returning home after his first year at college, was asked what he'd grained culturally during the year...
...Totem Pole last week turned columnist. H(arry) Allen Wolfgang Smith, 33, who went to work at 16 on the Huntington (Ind.) Press, made lis name working for U.P. and the New York World-Telegram with such gems as a story of a nudist camp (written stark naked on the scene), weather reports ("WEATHER NOTE: Bad for grandmothers"), an interview with Simone Simon. (Without a word he tickled her vigorously. When she protested but did not squeal, he said he was only testing a Hollywood report that she was ticklish.) His book, Low Man on a Totem Pole, based chiefly...
Topics during the first week of his column (The Totem Pole), syndicated by United Features: a Chinese restaurant "ploplietor" who gives tips on Tiger Bone Wine; a waiter philosophizing on John D. Rockefeller's money worries ; an original account of how General Sherman coined the phrase "War is Hell...
...complete totalitarian equipment, France seemed to lack only some such easily chosen totem as the swastika, fasces or hammer & sickle...
...feet. Singing opposite her in the role of Jim Kenyon, Alexander Grey is a somewhat lesser figure, but quite good enough in his own right. The dances of Grace Poggi as the sensuous young half-breed girl leave little more to be desired, especially the well-known "Totem Pole" number. All in all, "Rose Marie" is still very pleasant escapism for a troubled world...