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...lovers. But things are tough at home too. Mama (Judith Evelyn) gets a faraway look whenever Hilda begins blithering about life. And rascally Jean Pierre Aumont wants to bed her, not wed her. True enough, wealthy Guy Madison has honorable intentions, but Hilda thinks he is something of a cluck. She marries him, anyway, only to have Guy's meanly suspicious mother take her revenge by dying of a heart attack...
...spiro, spero-while I breathe, I hope-is young John Henry Johnson's motto. What he hopes for, he tells his astonished Congressman Jack Fairweather, is some of the gold in Fort Knox. Impossible, cluck-clucks Fairweather. and just what would he do with it if he got it. The answer convinces the congressman that he has been catering to the screwball vote: "I've developed a process for changing gold into dirt...
...Angus cattle have been Grand Champions in the last four Reading fairs. Like most Yorkmen, Guy Leader learned his trade early. "It became my job to assist my mother with her flock of chickens,'' he recalls, "caring for setting hens, making coops from store boxes for the cluck and her little brood when the chicks were hatched, seeing that they were fed and watered and that their heads were greased to kill the head lice when they appeared. At times, I assisted my mother in her efforts to remove tapeworms from their throats...
...their political persuasion, and to all "foreign friends" for flood and famine relief to save the mainland from disaster. He did more: he sent some of his own transport aircraft to drop 60 tons of rice over the worst-hit mainland provinces. The generalissimo did all this despite the cluck-clucking of the U.S. State Department that such assistance ought not to be rendered to enemy regimes. In so doing, Chiang, a practicing Christian, showed more magnanimity, good sense and imagination than the U.S. State Department...
...World of Mr. Sweeney (Tues.-Fri. 7:30 p.m., NBCTV) stars Oldtime Cinemactor Charlie Ruggles as a small-town storekeeper who likes to chuckle out warm, homemade philosophical comments while his dowdy customers cluck around palpating tomatoes and cantaloupes. Happily, the 15-minute show steers clear of the heap-o'-livin' or Just Plain Bilge routine and stays easygoing and amusing. Item: Sweeney's young grandson, played by Glenn Walken, asks for a candy bar, then borrows a dime from Sweeney and rings it up on the cash register; this, says Sweeney, "keeps him honest...