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This book represents Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell's annual defense of a title that is indisputably his-America's No. 1 cracker-barrel pornographer. Caldwell has rarely overindulged in four-letter words; he is simply a master of what might be called dirty-situation comedy. Since about 40 million hard-a nd soft-cover copies of his 34 books have been snapped up by U.S. and foreign readers (God's Little Acre tops the list with more than 8,000,000 copies sold), the reader can only conclude that to leer is human...
...editor of Home, NBC's do-it-yourself TV "magazine," Arlene has coxswained a varsity crew, gone down in a diving bell and up on a "cat cracker" (oil refiner), and ridden a camel at the Bronx Zoo. She also showed Homemakers how to make cream puffs and raise chimpanzees. She was the first woman ever to open the New York Stock Exchange ("I blew the whistle and all these men came charging out of their offices and started making money"). When the gadget-ridden Home that Pat Weaver built closed up last month after 3½-years...
Before official Washington could get out if town for the long weekend, Massachusetts' Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy set off a cannon cracker in the Senate that rattled the windows at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and painfully burned an ally 3,800 miles away. The Kennedy rework: an urgent appeal for the U.S. to step into the bloody Algerian rebellion against French rule and lend its weight to the cause of Algerian independence...
Kennedy acknowledged that his aim was to wake up the world to the Algerian situation. But his cannon cracker had done more than that. By sorely annoying the hard-pressed French and pushing the State Department into a position that sorely annoyed Africans and Asians, it seemed to have been all bang and no benefit...
...have made him the only newcomer to Nielsen's sacrosanct Top Ten this year. His canonization among the highly mortal immortals of TV has been a triumph-if that is the word-of manner. Ford has the warmth and expansiveness of a Baptist revivalist, some of the relentless cracker-barrel wit of an Alben Barkley or Will Rogers. No hayseed, he has parlayed his deep-dish Southern accent and soft, self-deprecatory ways into hard money. Says his manager: "He appeals to old people with his hymns and spiritual songs. He has a tremendous appeal to little youngsters because...