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...jacket set long affected ducktail haircuts with lush sideburns, and early-to-bed, high school athlete types favored the crewcut or its level-roofed extreme, the flattop. Inevitably, such a division in the ranks, visible even to parents, had to go. The suave slobs in jackets-leaderless since Guitar-Whanger Elvis Presley played a command performance in an Army barbershop last March-began to let a little more of their hair be cut off. Their short-haired opposites took second looks at the fraternity boys home for Thanksgiving and Christmas vacations. Compromise result clearly evident last week: the "Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Teen-Age Moderation | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...performances of the sophomore theatricals at Union Hall on April 2 and 3 were well attended and very successful. The play was entitled "Siegfried the Slugger; or, The Gottohammeron," and was purported to have been written by "Richard Whanger." The most taking things were a solo by Gunther, a trio sung by Gunther, Hagen and Siegfried, by which they bind their compact, and choruses of combined girls and warriors in the first act; a solo by Gunther with a chorus of warriors. and trio by the Rhine nymphs in the second act. The nymphs were very good in their singing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Siegfried the Slugger" at Union Hall. | 4/11/1888 | See Source »

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