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Chicken Every Sunday (20th Century-Fox) might look pretty foolish if it were set in modern times, but as a turn-of-the-century fable it seems plausible enough. The hero (Dan Dailey) is a rainbow-chaser-a dreamer, a promoter, an incurable gambler. He is the type who insists on financing a hospital in a small Arizona town because his wife (Celeste Holm) is expecting her first baby, but he is also ready to gamble their home against the long chance that he will bring in a copper mine. Dailey will take a flyer on anything, but once...
...Harlow had a wonderful time. He watched his amateur athletes serve, in a most professional manner, a certain dyspeptic Boston columnist a dish of his own words--something about somebody resigning--without even a bicarbonate chaser...
Absolved of obscenity: Poets Gaius Valerius Catullus and Vincent McHugh; by a grand jury in Manhattan. The jury threw out a suit brought last spring by famed Dirt Chaser John S. Sumner, who had objected to a phallic "Suite from Catullus" in Adaptei McHugh's book, The Blue Hen's Chickens, Sumner, who caid he was "not at all surprised," was now operating his battered old Society for the Suppression of Vice under a slightly more delicate name: the Society to Maintain Public Decency...
...known as 'Little Gaither the Money Waster and Woman Chaser.' I thought I was a big shot. Two or three grands on me at all times...
...Chaser. In Battle Mountain, Nev., a patient cop warned Frank Pace the first time he did it, pinched him 20 minutes later when Pace landed his plane, taxied down Main Street, parked in front of a tavern and strolled in for a beer...