Word: fibber
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...Frustrated Fibber...
...early days the outside world reached them through a battery-powered radio, and when night or the weather drew them inside, they had Fibber McGee and Molly, Gunsmoke and music. When rock 'n' roll came along, the girls liked it, but they also developed a fondness for the country tunes their father favored so. In time they began driving the 120 miles to Colorado Springs, to attend country music concerts...
...carries well. It bounces off a satellite into the electronic ears of more than 260 U.S. public radio stations--plus, antipodally enough, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation--and householders across the land shush one another the way people did decades ago when Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, or Fibber McGee and Molly came on the air. The theater audience settles back...
...Tommy (Bobby Driscoll) has taken his bedding to sleep where it?s cooler, on the fire escape outside the apartment upstairs. There he sees a woman (Ruth Roman) stab a man and, with her husband (Paul Stewart), take the corpse away. Tommy, who has the reputation as a fibber, can?t get his parents or the police to believe him. He?s in deeper trouble when his mother makes him apologize to the murderers. The next night, his folks have to go out overnight. ?Don?t leave your room,? warns his mother. ?I won?t, Mom,? he says hopelessly. ?There...