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...chief. On hand to make sure the boy minds his rail-splitting is a right friendly Army scout (Fess Parker). Actor MacArthur, who is built like a fireplug and is not much more expressive, sets out to make a mess of Fess. He swings at him with a rifle butt, wrestles with him in the muddy Ohio River. But sure 'nuff, he ends up back at the ranch, gloomily sitting in an old metal tub muttering, "Indian no stink, white man stink...
Even as a preteenager, the nameless boy-narrator of Stars is the butt of his Danish schoolmates' gibes. They shrill "Cross-eyes" when he squints. At recess time, they rip off his cap and toss it into the chestnut tree. When he cannot quite make out the math problems on the blackboard and whispers questioningly to a deskmate, the teacher canes him. The boy takes this ugly-duckling treatment philosophically. He believes that his ugly-duckling family, as well as his weak eyes, is to blame...
...light bulbs, no telephone. Smoke black from the lamps discolored the ceiling and, it was claimed by those who knew, an old-fashioned tub lay under Copey's bed. His abode was a landmark even from the outside; a yellow sponge dangled from his window by a string, the butt of such fond humor as this Lampoon poem...
...Called Henry. In Mold, Wales, the Rev. Henry Rees flunked the driving-license test for the fifth time, and, according to later court testimony, vengefully struck the examiner with a car-door handle, tried to butt him in the face, kicked at his legs, cried: "I'll bloody well shoot you," paid a ?5 ($14) fine...
...long, cast him and Imogene as a pair of chronic not-marrieds who were flung at each other by well-meaning friends; the other, too short, was a spoof on the current rash of TV shows built around singers on stools. Taking Frank Sinatra as his chief butt, Caesar prattled: "The whole show is live except me. I'm on film. And now from my latest album, Songs to Make Money By, here's a swingin' tune, Love Is a Gasser." By coincidence, ABC's Sinatra was appearing against Caesar as a guest...