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Shows like Hazel, Margie and Mr. Ed (the corn-talking horse) are actually coming back next fall, and the new season will further reflect the old with such unforget table concentrations of dramatic power as Leave It to Beaver, My Three Sons and The Real McCoys. Even Car 54, Where Are you? has been granted a stay of execution, although no one has ever known where it really...
...Corn. Mixing orchestra music, songs, plain talk, sentiment, shenanigans, commercials, and poems that would have embarrassed Edgar Guest. Breakfast Club is the salt of the air. The visiting audience is full of people who listen to McNeill every day without fail, and they feel no restraint about participating. One woman walked up to him during a show recently and hefted a likker pot toward him, drawling: "Ah brought you a small jug of corn from Alabama." "We got our own corn on this show," said...
...slave to Meredith Willson's Broadway hit musical. Indeed, at one point a theater spotlight is used to light up the hero and his girl, with the rest of the screen in darkness. The hero is Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston), a 1912 conman in the corn-belt town of River City, Iowa. Preston's tactic is to whip up enthusiasm in small towns for starting a brass band, sucker parents into buying the instruments and uniforms, and then skip out without teaching the young Sousaphiles a note. Preston is a musical illiterate but a one-man school...
...rest polyunsaturated. New Crisco, says P. & G., has double the linoleic acid of the old formula and of competing brands as well. General Mills, Inc. is marketing a safflower cooking oil named "Saff-o-life" which, its ads say, is "38% higher in polyunsaturates than any leading oil, even corn...
...chain, and as polyunsaturated if they are absent at two or more points. Most saturated fats are solid at room temperature, and come from meat or milk. The polyunsaturated fats, notably linoleic acid, are found mainly in fish, marine mammals, and such plant extracts as safflower, sunflower, cottonseed, soybean, corn and peanut oils. Only ten years ago, safflower oil was made mostly from imported seed for use in dyes. Today, hundreds of thousands of acres in California, Arizona and Utah grow the thistlelike plant...