Americana

P: Jimmy Moran, New Orleans restaurateur and onetime Huey Long bodyguard, who likes diamonds, added a new item to his wardrobe--trousers with a diamond-studded zipper.

P: Detroit's Garden City school board dismissed Mrs. Grace Flood for choking her pupils, beating their heads against the wall, taping their mouths, tying them to their seats. Defending her, four other teachers testified that her disciplinary technique was used by other teachers, too.

P: Offered two weeks at the Children's Aid Society summer camp, 12-year-old Mike Kivatisky, of Manhattan's upper East Side, politely declined. He explained that in Manhattan he could swim at one of the city's pools, play baseball in Central Park or a nearby vacant lot, get up when he wanted to. Said Mike: "Everything I can do at camp, I can do right down here. But here I can do it oftener."

P: Two days after he received an LL.D. from New York's Columbia University, former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes told Aiken County, S.C. high-school graduates that the phrase "you-all" was good English--if it is used as Southerners use it, in the plural. Said Byrnes: "There is nothing which irritates me quite so much as to attend the theater in New York and hear an actor . . . impersonate a Southerner and, in addressing an individual, say 'you-all.'"

P: Princeton University's cooperative store advertised musical beer steins ($8.75 apiece) which played Going Back to Nassau Hall when picked up, kept playing it until set down again.

P: Yoshiko Tanigawa, 22, a Nisei girl who spent 20 months at the Tule Lake detention camp during the war, was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, went on duty at the Long Beach, Calif. Naval Hospital. She is the U.S Navy's only Japanese-American officer.

P: After studying the 1948 birth certificates, New York City's Health Department reported that the most popular names for boys were Robert, John, James and Michael; for girls, Barbara, Linda, Patricia and Mary.

P: Gallup pollsters reported that 71% of all U.S. citizens speak no foreign language, that 47% don't even want to. Of those who wished they did, most wanted to learn Spanish or French.

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