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...with Yolanda Donlan (Mrs. Drake) on a farm in England, Fairbanks plays the dude. He continually argues with a cynical caretaker, whose Aroostook twang is painfully out of place, and with a handyman who can never finish a job. This too typical domestic scene is complemented by giggles from Yo-Yo (Yolanda, an actress who should have been left on the string) and snide marriage-night remarks from Drake...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/18/1951 | See Source »

...small, would not be aimed at winning territory but at hurting and discouraging the enemy. At the top level, this was called a war of maneuver. A G.I. from Alabama, who found himself slogging north through Suwon for the third time, put it differently. "I feel like a yo-yo," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Limited Objective | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...ersatz Herman Hickman grinned foolishly and wagged his yo-yo at 2000 rally-goers last night as head cheerleader Jerry Liebman 50 presented "the biggest parade crowd I've ever seen" with the first gagged-up rally in recent years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bogus Hickman Addresses Ralliers | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...pages were a dreary morass of technical jargon and statistical charts, it cost $6.50. But last week the U.S. was taking to Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, commonly known as "the Kinsey report" (TIME, Jan. 5), the way it had once taken to the Charleston, the yo-yo and the forcing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: How to Stop Gin Rummy | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

There was all sorts of other activity. The yo-yo was back in Dallas. Denver high-school girls were wearing one wingback earring, so large that it covered the entire ear. Los Angeles youth had invented a fascinating custom-taking off its shoes at dances. San Francisco girls rolled their bobby-sox down inside their shoes so nobody could see them. They didn't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Reeny Season | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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