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Calling All Princesses,Oh Mi and Other News

By Dan Piepenbring

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Bell Telephones debuted the Princess phone in 1959. Image via Attitude Analyst

  • The OED has made its latest update. Among the new words added: wackadoo, toilet-paper(as a verb), cunt lapper, and assisted living.
  • Minneapolis’s Graywolf Press turns forty.
  • Evocative shots of New York’s 1964 World’s Fair recall a time when the future was full of wonder, typefaces were chunkier, and you could ride a giant tire like a Ferris wheel.
  • Why should you major in English? Because Barbara Walters and Mitt Romney did, of course!
  • “It’s little! … It’s lovely! … It lights!” An enlightening history of Bell Telephone’s 1959 “Princess phone,” “the first phone specifically created for teenage girls and women … in its beauty and its place in the home, [it] was the embodiment of perfect womanly qualities of the time.”

 

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