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Old time column of odds and ends about American life
A noisy collage of trivia on 1950s life notes rising car and phone counts outpacing population, mass migrations from the South, marriage norms for American girls, a cosmetics firm boss and speed pilot, a beauty parlor upbringing, weight loss ventures, pipe smoking trends, shifts from meat machines to pills, schizophrenia figures, deodorant spending, sherry origins, teen driving, school bus habits, beef dominance in meat, Ocean spoilage preservative use, onion soup fads, and a final quip about La Rochefoucaud.
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BAL Bolle
New York
United States
America
Ous
Diame Rice Columunist
Missouri State Penittentiary
Moothill
Jacqueline Cothran
Ophan
Larry Mack
Elaine Malbin
Tim
Incyce
Phex
Napoleon Bonaparte
Josephine
Francois de la Rochefoucal