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...good ole Charlie Brown and his friends speak the sophisticated baby babble of the age-popularized psychology. Charlie (Gary Burghoff) has a way of putting himself down before the world does, a sly self-pitying form of oneupmanship. His shrew is Lucy (Reva Rose)-crabby and domineering; another is fussbudget Patty (Karen Johnson). His soul mate is Snoopy (Bill Hinnant), the dog who lies atop the doghouse that Charlie is always...
...which a quarter or half had been consumed at dinner reappeared on the table the next day with its ravages unrepaired." He had a "passion for motoring," and he indulged it "to the last drop of petrol of any visitor's car." He was a hypochondriac and a fussbudget and noticeably thin-skinned where criticism of his work was concerned. But he was also the "greatest talker" she had ever...
...Four. Perry Jones (TIME, Aug. 12, 1946), mother hen of California's tennis chicks, was the first of four men who helped mold Jake Kramer into a champion. Fussbudget Perry Jones-who says "I don't care how you hit your backhand . . . how do your pants look?"-liked the kid's looks; he was neat and polite. At Jones's suggestion the Kramer family moved in closer to Los Angeles where many of the good tennis players lived...
...fussbudget travelers who like to know where they are going and when they will get there, the North Atlantic last week was no fit place. In its third week the ground swell of World War II had tilted transatlantic shipping from confusion to chaos. Foreigners off to the wars could still obtain sailing permits from the U. S. State Department (providing they owed no income tax), but U. S. citizens who wanted to get to Europe had to unravel cat's-cradles of red tape. First requirement : a revalidated passport, good for six months at the most. These Secretary...
George and Margaret lives up to the reputation of current English humor for amiability and mildness. Dedicated to the principle that everything is for the best, it revolves around a crazy but comfortable family of five. Mother Alice (Irene Browne) is a congenital fussbudget, Father Malcolm's (Morland Graham) absentmindedness verges on the sublime, Daughter Frankie (Rosalyn Boulter) suffers from vestal restlessness, piano-playing Brother Dudley (Arthur Macrae) spouts Noel Coward and badgers stuffy Brother Claude (Richard Warner), who builds houses and does setting-up exercises. Clouds gather over the breakfast table when Gladys, the maid (Moya Nugent...