Word: counterfeited
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...much funnier Mark Twain is between the covers of a book than on a TV screen, CBS's U.S. Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., E.D.T.) was showing how much wittier Playwright J. B. Priestley is on the stage. The TV adaptation of Laburnum Grove, under the title Counterfeit, came around slowly to Priestley's engaging idea. A kindly English mediocrity (Boris Karloff) wants nothing more in the world than to live a quiet life in a London suburb, devoting his spare time to raising tomatoes. But since he is incapable of earning an honest penny, he tries...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Counterfeit, with Boris Karloff, Jessie Royce Landis...
Profit-Sharing. In St. Louis, charged with passing four counterfeit $10 bills in the pay envelopes of his employees, Cafe Owner George de Filippo explained that he had found them in his cash register, knew they were phony but saw no reason why he should be stuck with them...
...glory of God. In a final episode, an old man sits reading the Bible by the light of a solitary lamp. A young sharper (not the confidence-man) exposes the old man's imperfect faith by selling him a lock and a money belt, and giving him a counterfeit-detector as a bonus. The confidence-man gently chides the old fellow, "since in Providence, as in man, you and I equally put trust." "Let me extinguish this lamp," he says, and as he leads the old man off into the darkness, the confidence-man is no longer a smooth...
...bouquet to both Dr. Jung and TIME [Feb. 14] for their splendid efforts in at tempting to convey many highly specialized data concerning today's most momentous issue - genuine mental health. In this era of escapism, mass alcoholism, counterfeit divorce decrees, hospitalized thousands of paranoia, hebephrenia and catatonia victims who are the victims of serious social blights, shallow philosophy, A- and H-bomb hysteria, pathetically false rationalizing and a disregard for God's holy commandments, etc., yours was an exceptionally well-timed article...