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...Radcliffe's good, ya know," Miss Paget said, pleading for a non-scatological news story. "Although our girls are superficially easygoing competitors, they are great performers...
...Vellucci treated his dinner table to something more: an introductory course in his own brand of town-gown politics. "This is what ya call a softening up campaign," Vellucci confided to the football players. "I'm launching a campaign to become President of Harvard in a year...
...moved to Hollywood and quickly established himself as a character actor in the tough-guy tradition-a kind of punk's Bogart. Today old movie buffs still see him on TV reruns, barking at his moll, Gloria Grahame, Vivian Blaine or Marie McDonald: "I fought I told ya to wait in da car." He ran his luck through nearly 150 movie roles, but by 1941 gangster parts were declared bad for the image of a nation at war. As the clean-cut types moved in, Leonard moved out to the one medium where he could be heard...
...mistaken you for Mrs. Harrison Williams yet" was changed to "for Princess Radziwill"; "I wish I could make up my mind whether or not I like Shirley Temple" was updated to "whether I like the Beatles." Originally, when the cigarette girl asked, "Wh'd'ya say if I was to tell you I'm a commyanist?", Sadie replied, "Fd say ya was bats. I was a Townsendite. Where'd it get me?" Today Sadie says, "I was a Bircher...
Back to Fun. There are dozens of rock 'n' roll groups in the U.S., most of them Negro, who can sing better and play better than the Beatles. But somewhere between the "ya da da da da da da" of Sh-Boom and the whine of Hound Dog, U.S. rock 'n' roll groups became mired in lamenting lost love and other ailments of the heart. By refusing to take themselves seriously, the Beatles made rock 'n' roll fun again...