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...Friendly Bean." The Hoppers go miles out of their way to get gas a fraction of a cent cheaper; they have never bought a new car. They eat out a great deal-at lunch counters. Yet they are open-handed with friends needing help, and on occasion they do spend folding money for themselves; e.g., Mrs. Hopper insists on her husband's wearing elegant sports clothes from Abercrombie & Fitch, though he complains that he doesn't "want to look like a damned hero." And when they bought their 1954 Buick, Hopper had the perfectly good green-tinted glass...
...stove. "I suppose I should have used the gas range," Mrs. Hopper chirped, "but it just makes a lot of grease for Eddie to clean up." For a cookbook giving the favorite recipes of artists, she wrote that "one might say we like to have cans of the friendly bean on the shelf...
Studio One offers Paul Crabtree's A Christmas Surprise (Dec. 24, 10 p.m., CBS), with Robert Q. Lewis and Orson Bean in a comedy about a TV show's disruptive visit to a family on Christmas...
...Provincetown he met Tulla, and this was a significant day in the American history of the coffee bean. Tulla, which means "little girl" in Norwegian, had a seafaring grandfather who once ran short on whale cargo near Java, so started carting coffee back to Norway. Tulla's grandmother soon learned how to make quantities of good coffee, as did her daughter and her daughter's daughter, Tulla. "And I was a little girl, once," she laughs when she explains her name. She seems to have a sort of quiet discipline which will insure the shop's cleanliness, and has herself...
...Middlebury; Dec. 18, Providence College at the Boston Garden; Dec. 27-29, Holiday Tournament, at the Boston Arena; Jan. 7, Boston Univ., at the Boston Arena; Jan. 10, at American International; Jan. 12, at Princeton; Jan. 14, Northeastern, at the Boston Garden; Feb. 1 and 5, Bean Pot Tournament, at the Boston Garden; Feb. 2, at Brown; Feb. 7, Brown; Feb. 9, American International; Feb. 13, Boston College, at the Boston Arena; Feb. 16, at Dartmouth; Feb. 20, at Williams; Feb. 23, Tufts; Feb. 27, Dartmouth; Mar. 2, Yale, at the Boston Garden; Mar. 6, Princeton; Mar. 9, at Yale...