Americana

Notes on U.S. customs, manners and morals, as reported in the U.S. press:

P: The American Association of Teachers of Slavic Languages announced that the number of colleges offering courses in Russian language and culture was up 38% from last year, with more than 30,000 students now enrolled.

P: Only four out of ten U.S. families still say grace before meals, said Dr. Gallup.

P: In Detroit, Police Censor Charles Snyder jailed three stripteasers of the Empress Burlesque. Said Virginia Murphy, 27, who had taken off her G-string and thrown it to the audience: "I was leaving and I wanted the boys to remember me."

P: At Upsala College, East Orange, N. J., Naomi Sylvia Charner, vice president of Phi Omega Chi sorority, turned in her pin because the sorority had refused admission to a Negro student. Retorted a sorority sister: "It's only kindness to keep from pledging a Negro girl. After all, there are so many places Negroes can't go socially."

P: "The proper study of babies is puppies," said Lawrence K. Frank, father of six, director of Manhattan's Caroline Zachry Institute on Human Development, in the New York Times Magazine. Pups, like babies, are helpless, demanding, and brainless, should be nuzzled and fed frequently. Readers' conclusion: prospective parents should have a puppy first.

P: At California's Mission of San Juan Capistrano, the swallows flew in the face of the years-old legend that they always return on St. Joseph's Day (March 19), arrived four days early.

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