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...great-great grandfather James McLean Bell, called by the other settlers of Pikeville, Kentucky "Jaybird" because he was always jabbering about some wrongness the world had done to him, and some wrongness was always being done, it seemed, in that east Kentucky town, in 1840 no longer the frontier but still a place where a man could make a decent living making malt whiskey and selling it to the survivors of the Iroqois Five Nations, and nobody would care until the night when Jaybird Bell, liquored up on his own hooch, killed a man in a knife fight. Then...
Along with a clutch of lurid nudie magazines, the film was introduced as evidence of the kind of material that the Supreme Court, with Fortas in agreement, has found to be not legally obscene. Senator Thurmond branded the nudist magazines, such as Nudi-Fax, Friendly Female and Weekend Jaybird, as "foul, putrid, filthy, repulsive, objectionable and obnoxious...
...Jaybird Naked. Of course JC has been warned about iniquity. "The danger of moral cancer, as Dad calls it, is ever present," he explains. But could Dad have prepared him for Kitten's un-American attack on television? She dismisses a global panel discussion that JC is ungallantly watching as "dum rockit rackit." When a western comes on, she screams "Whiteman shootin . . . mothahless madass boom boomin crap." Then, jaybird naked, she picks up the offending set bodily and tries to toss it out the narrow window. She fails. "Yeah! Gee-zuz! Ain nothin else...
...trembling with pyrotechnical explosions. Essie marries a xylophone player who comes around one day. She also devotes much of her time to the commercial manufacture of "Love Dreams," a candy, and the study of toe dancing. She and the rest of the irresponsible, carefree household are happy as a jaybird with a worm until suddenly Granddaughter Alice Sycamore (Margot Stevenson) becomes painfully aware of the family's prodigious eccentricity because she and her highly conventional employer's son, Tony Kirby, fall in love...
...VOICE OF BUGLE ANN-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann ($1.25). MacKinlay Kantor has long revealed a preoccupation with native Midwestern themes and legends of the sort that characterize folk literature. The Jaybird, his novel of a wandering Civil War musician who befriended a Kansas waif, was a sentimental tale for which modern small towns provided an incongruous and unromantic background. Author Kantor now returns to the mood and manner of The Jaybird with a slight, short novel in which a Missouri legend of a wonderful foxhound serves as the frail basis for a story involving revenge, murder and a family feud...