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Whence come the echoes of "Huh! Huh! Huh! I am the Shadow!", "Hi-Ho Silver" and "On, King, on, you huskies ..." See SHOW BUSINESS, Gothic Revival...
...when President Kennedy visited the North American College, Cushing was on hand to greet him, with a group of sobersided clerics looking on. Instead of offering his episcopal ring to be kissed, Cushing squared off, aimed a mock right hook at the President's solar plexus and bellowed: "Hi, Jack...
...throughout the U.S., the center of attention these days is a monstrous new machine called Scopitone. It is a cross between a jukebox and TV. For 250 a throw, Scopitone projects any one of 36 musical movies on a 26-in. screen, flooding the premises with delirious color and hi-fi scooby-ooby-doo for three whole minutes. It makes a sobering combination...
...other durables, along with an increase in money paid out for services. Now the shift toward nondurables is being accompanied by a rise in comfort-making durables or services: air-conditioner sales are up 40% this summer; people are spending more for summer camps and club memberships, pianos and hi-fi sets, and there is a young-mothers' move toward daytime baby sitters while they shop...
...their size, the power-pushing cylinders are first cousins of the fragile vacuum tubes that glow in TV and hi-fi sets. But for all their futuristic appearance, they are a long reach into the past. They deal in electricity that always flows in the same direction-the same direct current that Thomas Alva Edison used in 1882 when he built his first primitive power system in downtown New York...