Word: homespuns
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...honor to TIME for the fine . . . article . . . Most of all, you have pictured a real homespun American with the rare quality of good horse sense. It is really refreshing to know we have a man like Secretary McKay in Government service . . . Such a contrast to the goggle-eyed intellectuals we have had to bear with. Sort of gives a body hope again that our country may yet return to the good old private-enterprise system that made America great...
...Serpent's Tail. Admittedly, most La Fontaine precepts are as sound as Ben Franklin's-e.g., "Better think of the outcome before you begin," "A counterfeit's sure to be exposed to light"-although they are dressed in brocade rather than homespun. The fables he borrowed from Aesop in La Fontaine's hands became tart and graceful satires on society, with neat plots and sharp blackout punch lines...
...contriver of "adroit hokum," which is hopelessly "fast-moving" and unreclaimably "superficial." The good always wins, the boy always gets the girl, and they are married in a nice church ceremony-just after getting the deed to a nice piece of real estate-while a kindly old homespun philosopher stands snapping his galluses in the background...
...Mont's Paul Dixon strikes the folksy note by chewing gum, rubbing his nose and garbling his syntax. Bob Crosby is a hands-in-pockets man, but he also shoots his eyebrows, ducks his head winningly and rocks on heel and toe. His cast struggles to be homespun, and his young singer, Allan Copeland, is loaded with boyish humility...
Born. To Herb Shriner, 35, homespun Hoosier radio-TV comedian-quizmaster (Two for the Money), and Eileen McDermott Shriner, 27: their second and third children, twin boys; in Manhattan. Names: Kin and Lark. Weights...