Books

September, 1982

Rowrbazzle!''''Huzzah!''''It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.''If you didn't grow up with it, that gibberish probably sounds like gibberish to you. But among kids in the Fifties, it was an all-purpose vocabulary shared by all who vowed. ''I go Pogo.'' It included such classic Christmas-carol lyrics as ''Deck us all with Boston Charlie, Walla Walla, Wash., and Kalamazoo'' and ''Good King Sauerkraut went out on his feets uneven''--plus the timeless thought (used for the famous 1971...