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...agree, football has not been the same since the general adoption of the huddle system 15 years or so ago. Not only has the game been slowed down from a pre-huddle average of about 150 plays to as few as 90, but nothing has ever replaced the exhilarating chatter of a bossy, spark-plug quarterback, barking "Sig-nuls!'' in the crisp autumn...
Convicted of simple assault & battery were three Warrenton, Va. aristocrats who last June oiled & feathered Washington Society Chit-Chatter Count Igor Cassini, because they did not like his printed references to their families and friends (TIME, July 3). Ian Montgomery, 38, took all the blame, thereby pulled the teeth of the indictment for mob assault, which might have jailed the trio for ten years each. To a court jampacked with Fauquier (pronounced faw´-kee-a) County hunt society, a Fauquier County jury declared the act a misdemeanor, ruled that their fun would cost the defendants $500 (Ian Montgomery...
When she was two years old, little Maxine Yarrington of Erie, Pa. skipped around pestering her mother with endless chatter, like any other normal child. One day she grew feverish, complained of a headache, a stiff back. Mrs. Yarrington put her to bed, called Dr. Howard Bassett Emerson. For a while little Maxine cried and mumbled, but gradually her voice trailed off, and burrowing into the warm quilts, she fell asleep...
...November issue of Radio News tells more than all. According to Editor Kopetzky's undercover man, Anonymous, much of the circumspect chatter from abroad has a double, secret, coded meaning, decipherable only by experts in the broadcasters' listening posts...
...Hollywood, between takes, Cinemactress Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil, is wont to sit aloof and brooding. Metamorphosed by her light-comedy role in her picture-in-progress (Ninotschka), she joined the offset chatter, sometimes smiled right out loud...