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Eskimo Pie. Russell Stover himself was an lowan who took up candymaking almost as a hobby. In Omaha in 1922, he teamed up with a man named Christian Nelson to concoct a chocolate-covered ice-cream bar that became famous as Eskimo Pie. Stover and Nelson were rich within six months but soon got bogged down in a series of costly patent suits. After a falling out with Nelson, Stover started anew in Denver, began producing "Mrs. Stover's Bungalow Candies" with his wife Clara. So popular were his hand-dipped chocolates that Stover opened up five retail outlets...
...most of his speech before an assembly of metal workers in Havana, Cuba's Fidel Castro, 40, railed against the evils of creeping bureaucracy in his island paradise. Then he digressed for a while to savor one of the glorious advances of his revolution: ice-cream production. "Our ice cream can compete with the best ice creams in any part of the world," drooled Fidel, as the workers cheered. "Today we produce 26 flavors, and it's worth emphasizing that not once has one of the flavors failed. Never has the peak of quality been allowed to drop...
...SHAMELESS OLD LADY. The heroine of this winsome French film is a cheeky septuagenarian who wins a new lease on life when her husband dies. In the title role, French Stage Star Sylvie, 81, develops a yen for TV, movies, horse races and ice-cream sundaes, ends up spending 18 brief but glorious months of self-indulgence before death overtakes...
...squanders her family's meager monthly handouts on dining at a cafe or on rides in a hansom cab. After befriending an agreeable demi-prostitute and paving the primrose path for her grandson, she develops a haphazard taste for TV, movies, horse races and ice-cream sundaes. She eventually sells off her furniture, buys a jaunty little car, and finances a Communist cobbler who yearns to open a self-service shoe store. Before death overtakes her, the cheeky septuagenarian has lived two lives-one being the long years of servitude as daughter, wife and mother, the other made...
WAYNE AND SHUSTER TAKE AN AFFECTIONATE LOOK AT W. C. FIELDS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Fields, notable during his life for absentmindedly blowing the heads off ice-cream sodas, will probably be glaring back from somewhere at these old film clips and new comments...