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...classrooms we find that Bernie (pronounce it any way yo-all want to) Bienvenu is never unprepared. It may have taken 20 minutes of mental hand-springs on his part but he did astound the class, proving that "bags without handles are no good." The class laughed, but Bernie knew he had not "missed the point" and was therefore happy. Note also the breathless response which this brought up from New Jersey...

Author: By Larry Hyde, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 12/8/1944 | See Source »

...declaration of liberty gave "debonaire Don" Perkins a chance to show his wares to the Boston women. No comments as yet in the Boston papers. (May be they haven't uncovered the bodies.) The lad can, really spin a yo-yo...

Author: By Pearson Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 11/21/1944 | See Source »

Postwar Kindergarten. One yo-yo had been given the Latins: the State Department's current series of "Informal Talks" about postwar organization. At the first two, the Latin diplomats sat like school children (they claimed), while Acting Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius told them about the postwar world. At the third "Talk" last week, Uruguay and Venezuela protested against the postwar plan sketched out at Dumbarton Oaks. Other protests were expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Yo-Yos from Immutables | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...have secretly banded together in order to wipe out for once and for all the Crimson Menace. Operating strictly under order from the Blue Square in New Haven, I revealed the intolerable conditions in the Ha'v'd Ya'd and got a DSC and a shiny new yo-yo from the PBY committee (Pour le Bettrement de Yale), Fifth Column Division...

Author: By S/sgt. GEORGE Avakian, | Title: SPECIALISTS' CORNER | 8/27/1943 | See Source »

Then there is the Winthrop House and De Wolfe Street Yo-Yo and top Spinning Society which claims to hold meetings at odd hours under the Lars Anderson Bridge. A rather shady looking bloke, claiming he was a charter member, gave a last spin to his Yo-Yo and retired for the night whistling "Yokahama Yo-Yo" until it was lost on the night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gimme a Yo-Yo, Says Howl, In Winthrop it is Spring | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

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