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...members, rejoicing in their radicalness, felt a certain kinship to other piercees. The bond resembled that among owners of Jaguar sportscars, who honk loudly whenever they pass a confrere on the road. Also, ear piercing was a method of rebellion against parental authority. Mother, who had worn screw-on button earrings all her life, was horrified to see slivers of wood or tin dripping from her daughter's lobes...
Solution: Suicide. After Hodgins left the hospital and went back to his apart ment, with a practical nurse in charge, he got a nasty series of jolts. He could not button his shirt, tie his shoes, spell certain kinds of words; worst of all, he could no longer operate a typewriter. A former managing editor of FORTUNE, author of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, and an associate of Pollster Elmo Roper, Hodgins felt almost as dependent on his typewriter as a scuba diver on his air tank. Faced with a future of uselessness, he no longer wanted a future...
...wants the hockey game and his wife wants Scott, according to Gernsback's plan, he presses a button that centers the hockey on the big screen; meanwhile, Mrs. Telefiend puts on a set of earphones that tune in to Scott. The children have additional ear phones with which to make their own choices. Everybody is happy...
...maintained that navels, like noses, were indispensible anatomical particulars might have been disturbed by a Scandinavian Airlines advertisement in a recent issue of the Los Angeles Times. Over the caption, "What to show your wife in Scandinavia," the ad pictured a strapping blonde with bikini but definitely without belly-button...
...continuity to provide flavorful exterior background to the otherwise indoor London setting of Terence Rattigan's story about an American girl and a Carpathian prince. With a big straw hat over her blonde hair, her clothing a rag sonata of browns and purples, her feet, encased in high button shoes, kicking up to show legs that would flatter a Tottenham Court soccer player, she belts out a medley of Noel Coward cockney songs-London Is a Little Bit of All Right, Saturday Night at the Rose and Crown-that ring all the bells of Shoreditch...