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Fausto (Franco Fabrizi), the biggest of the slobs, is a charming young chump who spends most of his life salting the local quail. When a beauty contest winner gets pregnant, he tries to leave town, but his father catches him on the wing, makes him marry the girl (Leonora Ruffo). His father-in-law then forces him to take a job in a shop that sells religious objects. Fausto tries to relieve his misery by flirting with the boss's wife, gets fired for his pains. Not long after, he spends the night with a showgirl (Maja Nipora), comes...
...become managing editor of the Daily Worker at a 35% cut in salary. He told a vivid story of his buffeting in that job (see below). Two years later he worked up "the strength" to quit both the party and the paper, and to stop being "a lunkhead," "chump" and "poor, miserable, tragic fool." A completely cooperative witness, Glaser nevertheless protested that "the sole benefit" of his presence at the hearing was "to make a sort of public spectacle of me, because of the dreadful, terrible mistake I made more than 21 years...
Professional Father (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS) has Actor Steve Dunne pretending to be a child psychologist in what are described as "all kinds of hilarious adventures." Helping him to make a chump of himself are his wife, Barbara Billingsley, and the inevitable two children (Ted Marc and Beverly Washburn). As a psychologist, Dunne advises other fathers how to deal with their children but, naturally, it takes his all-wise wife to set him right on how to handle...
Anyone who thinks that Yalies are more dignified with their feminine companions that Harvard men is certainly off his chump. But a comparison of Yale and Harvard parietal rules would seem to indicate just this. Until the Housemasters and the Administration take action, the College will no longer retain its leadership in granting student freedom. The entire matter of extending the present eight o'clock deadline on weekends has been thoroughly discussed and investigated. Last fall, a Student Council Committee issued a lengthy report on the subject following a student campaign to get the rules relaxed, but this committee gave...
...whole jarful. At 16, John began cleaning inkwells and sweeping floors at Vesey Street for his father. He got $5 a week, but his frugal mother made him pay $1 board and put another $1 in the bank. Says John: "When I got a $2 raise, like a chump I told my mother. She raised my board...