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Unable to afford the $230 plane fare, Morton took the bus. On the back seat he sat upright with Donald cradled in his arms, fed him carrot juice and Pablum, comforted him when his pains grew worse, breathed air into his nostrils when he choked. At one point a party of drunks tried to force the Mortons off the back seat because they were taking up too-much room. "For the first time in my life," said gentle Farmer Morton, "I resisted...
Worn to a frazzle with casting problems for his new circus picture, The Greatest Show on Earth, Director Cecil B. DeMille dutifully posed for a pressagent's picture with a "hopeful starlet" licking his hand. The starlet: "Little Tyke," a four-year-old vegetarian lioness, raised on Pablum, milk and corn flakes...
...cameramen have learned a few tricks to titivate nature's frowzy face. Examples: strips of cloth dangled before a spotlight make a plausible flickering fire, and broken brown glass piled over a light bulb and sprinkled with titanium tetrachloride is a convincing pile of smoldering coals. Dry pablum, confetti or bleached corn flakes are used as a snow flurry; ice cream salt is hail, and raw white rice shaken from a colander looks enough like rain. Glycerine spray makes studio props appear...
...explained clearly that his wife has deserted him in some dastardly fashion, taking his ten-year-old son, his pride and joy. (That's why he's tough, see). But it isn't until halfway between the Tarawa and Iwo campaigns that he shows his true nobility by feeding Pablum to the infant son of a girl he has picked up in a bar instead of carrying the interview to its logical conclusion...
...learn how to talk. The script even dredges up a golden-hearted harlot (Julie Bishop) and throws her at Wayne's head. But the tough sergeant never lays a finger on her; when he learns that her tot is in the next room, he opens a box of Pablum. (Says she, impressed: "You know about babies...