European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Law in Thon the headline making antics of the current younger generation Are As truly typical of them As goldfish swallowing was of by Debs Myers yank staff writer Rumor has gained substance of late that this generation of teenage americans is Jitter bugging off to a spiritual Pratt headlines have told of kids who Wrig Gle rapturously to the Siren trumpets of Jive jittery pied pipers of squealing Bobby boxers who swoon smack dab on their kissers while listening to crooners of High school boys who peek in neighbor girls it makes rousing but the Story seems to be somewhat the order of that item you May remember in the first Reader about the fool Chicken named Henn Penny who Felt a pea fall on her feathers and thought the sky was to a beat up old Geezer who remembers drool ing at Colleen Moore in a movie called flaming to a Guy who once was a promising peeping Tom these teenagers fail grievously to live up to their press notices dog gone if most of them dont act like Normal human at they Are twitter ated but these Are twitter ated teenagers Are surprisingly like other people some of them Are All right and some of them Are the Good ones will grow up to be a Little less silly than they Are and the jerks Aill possibly become foremen and first and Prosper in their own poisonous Page 8 As the term is popularly appear to be boys and girls from 14 to 17 who do the things that seem like a Good idea at that the girls among the teenagers Are called Bobby this is because they Wear Bobby Bobby sox Are Short the hosiery Mills in the states indignantly deny they have manufactured one pair of Bobby sox they emphasize that last year they produced pairs of the manufacturers stress that they would be called anklets if your grandma wore and conceivably she might Wear them if Shes a sporty old grandma with Grable Gams it become Bobby sox and a psychological problem Only when a teenage girl crams her feet into the boys Are called simply or maybe Young idiots if their a happens to be put out with one of them will probably grow up to be president provided some Smarty pants of a girl Doest beat him out of the these Jive kids of the Early and Middle 40s Are the successors to the Gaudy sophisticates of some years Back who whooped it up in rumble danced the Black screamed its the cats jangled jangled slave jangled everybody some of today teenagers pleasantly not the strange new language of Sling in this Bright lexicon of the Good citizens of a girl with sex Appeal is an Able Grable or a ready a pretty girl is whistle a boy whose Mug and Muscles a peal to the girls is a Mellow a hunk of Heartbreak or a glad a prude is a hair a grind is a Book a teachers pet is a gone a fancy dancer is a Jive bomber or a Cloud Walkery a boy Given to hugging the Little some of these a Wolf on a Scooter or an educated a boy who is girl crazy is Dame a girl who is boy crazy is Slack Happy and to be jilted is to be shot Down in despite this Devotion to ritualistic incoherence most of the teenagers get Good grades in eng which they read and sometimes they want to know whose business it is if they prefer broken 1 controversy among the teenagers is Over the respective talents of Bing Crosby and Frank which is the better crooner to those engaged in the Grimmer aspects of War such As trying to keep from being this May seem a trivial but who had Ever thought anybody could get excited Over so tepid a topic As Tea until a Bunch of Guys in Boston a Century and a half ago poured some into the without sugar or if you this incident led to much banding of harsh words and banging of the feud Between the Crosby and Sinatra clans is a deadly thing that probably will grow in bit if it flares into open it will be fought entirely among the boys just dont give a tinkers  go for a Thrush like Frances Langford or Betty smart another Point that should be made Clear about this controversy is that the More violent Crosby Sinatra ones who scream and faint and act like heifers with burrs under their tails represent a very Small portion of the country female most of the kids of both sexes think All this is As silly As you and if you keep right on bucking for that Section because you got a leg up on the girls who yell at the Here i