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...real friends and apparently without desire for any. He has no small talk, and no interest in anybody else's. He is aloof from most of his colleagues, including veteran Zionists with whom he has marched since, an immigrant from Czarist Poland, he began his career as a plowboy in 1907 in a struggling settlement in Galilee...
Eddy Arnold Show (Tues. & Thurs., 7:30 p.m., NBCTV) tries gamely to flesh out its hillbilly tunes with production numbers in the Hit Parade manner. Billed as "the Tennessee Plowboy," unsponsored Eddy Arnold strums a guitar, beats out songs like Moonlight & Roses in country rhythm, and gets informal support from an earnest, shiny-faced trio called the Dickens Sisters...
Plans for '52. Only once during the week did he make one of his cryptic references to 1952. Standing on the steps to the White House rose garden and beaming down on a delegation of clean-scrubbed 4-H farm boys & girls, ex-Plowboy Truman told his grinning audience that a farm was a wonderful place. "I hope to go back to the farm some day," he said, "some people are in a hurry for me to go back, but I'm not going back as fast as they may want...
Triumphant Discussion. At Neosho, Mo., he couldn't resist giving the home folks a triumphant discussion of his travels. "I started out at Des Moines, at a plowing contest," said ex-Plowboy Harry Truman, "and there were just about ten acres of people in front of the stand where I spoke ... I went to Denver and there were 100,000 people . . . went on down the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and over to Salt Lake City...
...toured the U.S., making personal appearances (for as high as $5,000), plugging his own records. He is a regular on NBC's Grand Ole Opry, now has his own five-day-a-week transcription programs. In Manhattan a reporter asked him whether he really had been a plowboy. Said he: "Boy, I sure did plow. That's why I wanted to learn to play that guitar, so I wouldn't have to keep plowin' all my life...