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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Your Nov. 6 cover story on the disgusting L'l Abner is certainly a record new low of some sort...
...kiddies form a vast, commercial audience, almost as important to U.S. business as their soap-opera-loving mothers; each has become a sort of quivering vacuum tube, and the man who can tune in on exactly the right wave length automatically assumes the same power over the tot that Edgar Bergen holds over Charlie McCarthy. Given just the right nudge, Junior, even at distances up to 3,000 miles, will open his mouth and say, "Mamma...
Boots & Saddle. Earlier generations of U.S. children had been exposed to this sort of thing, of course. More than one house was burned to the ground in the '90s by small boys reading Nick Carter in the attic by candlelight. Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show set hordes of amateur buckaroos to lassoing gate posts and hapless cats. As early as 1907, the Youth's Companion promised boys who sent in a new subscription and $1.15 a "No. 3 striking bag . . . new pear shape, very popular, particularly adapted for quick work . . ." Girls could earn "artistic wood-burning...
Moriarty's was soon the Yaleman's second home. It picked up the na,me of "the quiet House," and class after class of Eli undergraduates developed a great fondness for the short, stumpy imitation English oak door, the sort, stumpy bar, the short, stumpy proprietor, and his short stumpy wife...
...after prestige, and many of them don't, Yale's social values set his undergraduate life "and in all probability much of his future life"Jaccording to the sociological study mentioned before. "Every student who comes to Yale is faced with a major decision as to what sort of adjustment he is going to make to this prestge series. The men at the top of the series set the norm at Yale. The attitudes actions, and achievements of the men in the other groups are in some way adjustments to the attitudes, actions, and achievements...