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Around the Piccolo. Some pushers run establishments known as "tea pads." The tea pad may be anything from a rented room to a suite in a fashionable hotel. Usually it is dimly lighted with colored lamps and reeks of incense burned to cover the telltale, bonfire-like odor of burning marijuana. Most tea pads are supplied with a juke box (known in marijuanese as a "piccolo"). Clients who have assembled to "have a pad" may smoke their own reefers. But commonly they blast the goof-butt collectively, passing a single reefer around from mouth to mouth like a pipe...
...clothes and college texts have great sentimental value. Unfortunately they can not be bound in pastel-pink ribbons, and filed away as neatly as love letters. Hungry moths and avid vermin are too liable to corrupt such earthly treasures. Hence they often pad the maws of ashcans and end their usefulness in dumps. For a cherished garment or a much-thumbed book, that fate is bitter. Far better to fling both clothes and texts, with a gesture of sublime extravagance, into the eager coffers of the Brooks House Old Clothes Drive which are secreted in the janitor's office...
Reclamation. At Fort Belvoir, Va., an Army supply sergeant found diapers on a laundry list, learned that one soldier carried them 1) to clean his rifle, 2) to polish his mess kit, 3) to dust his shoes, 4) to pad the inside of his helmet...
Cats enthrall Heroine Irene Dubrovna (Simone Simon). When she is awake, her subcutaneous felinity makes real cats arch & spit; when she is asleep, cats pad across her brain. She believes legends to the effect that her medieval Serbian ancestors were half-cats, and that she cannot let husband Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) kiss her lest she sprout claws and rip him apart. Psychiatrist Dr. Judd (Tom Conway) delivers sermons on over-imagination. The tactless husband discusses Simone with Alice-at-the-office (Jane Randolph), gradually succumbs to her sympathy. After Alice is ambushed three times by Simone...
...leisurely fashion, always followed a set routine which he once described: "First, put the program on the desk so that the title of the play and the names of the actors can be accurately copied. Then lay out a box of matches, light a pipe, take a pad of yellow paper and a dozen sharply pointed pencils from a drawer. . . . What will the first line be? That is the crucial factor in the whole night's work. It is the entrance into the story. . . . Praise God from whom first sentences flow...