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Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Eva Le Gallienne in excerpts from The Cherry Orchard...
...Jofroi, a prewar Pagnol comedy based on a story by Jean Giono, proves the brightest thing in the package. Jofroi (well played by Vincent Scotto) is a hidebound old peasant, suspicious, ignorant and proud. The old man sells his orchard to his neighbor, Fonse (Henri Poupon), then pulls a gun when he sees Fonse uprooting precious trees. When the village priest forces a compromise that will give Fonse the orchard after Jofroi dies, the old man announces that he will commit suicide to put his death on Fonse's conscience. After some 30 suicide attempts, he intimidates Fonse into...
...chestnut has been sold by commercial nurseries for some time in small quantities, but the Department of Agriculture is not interested in lawn or even orchard chestnuts. What it wants is a tree that will establish itself under forest conditions. If Castanea mollissima does so on a large scale, a side benefit may be an upsurge of wild turkeys, which once lived largely on chestnuts, and were greatly reduced in numbers when the blight killed the trees...
Between bouts with Russia's Jacob Malik, Chief U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Warren Austin hurried off to Burlington, Vt, put on the proper uniform (including a frayed shirt and striped galluses) for an inspection tour of his ripening apple orchard...
Then he sat down and obligingly pinpointed 22 of his own artillery pieces hidden in an apple orchard behind the Communist front lines. U.S. fighters and artillery promptly went to work on the orchard...