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...other U.S. performers-Caesar. Gleason Kovacs-who have tinkered fitfully with the unspoken attitude. Skelton shuffled through the pathetic attempts of Freddie the Freeloader to cadge a Thanksgiving dinner from the Elite Restaurant. His kindness in returning a rich matron's purse was rewarded with no reward: a policeman rapped a lone apple from his hand; he bungled his temporary job as a dishwasher. But at last a kindly stranger invited him to share his turkey dinner (fastidious Freddie, presented with a finger bowl, carefully daubed his armpits). By the time bird-sick Freddie woke up in the hospital...
...taken in. "What's this," sneers the older boy when Father tries to teach him how to fish, "the Huckleberry Finn approach?" And when he mildly reproves the younger son for some particularly brattish behavior, Sophia indignantly tells him: "Try to be a parent, not a policeman." In the end, when Father is reduced to gibbering ineffectiveness, the woman calmly and efficiently takes over and puts the poor man out of his misery by marrying him. At this point the children determine to assert their authority over both parents by refusing to attend the wedding. "Please," Father piteously pleads...
Missing Parts. To plumb this jungle mystery, the Belgian district officer at Ponthierville assigned a native policeman named Bumba, who journeyed among the native tribes-the dominant Panamoli and their rivals, the Basua-and the scattered river fishermen who are born, live and die in their pirogues, made from tree trunks scooped out with fire. There had been a number of unexplained disappearances along the river, many more than could be accounted for by accidental drownings or by voluntary departures to go to the city, or farther into the jungle, or to escape a nagging wife. The crocodiles...
Reporter Allen's story is a shocker. Some of the things that strike a new teacher at John Marshall: a fulltime policeman inside the building; a teacher patrolling each corridor; students' coats locked up each morning so children will be less likely to run away from school; girls sent to the lavatory two-by-two so that they will not be attacked sexually. Allen taught English to "average" eighthgraders and two classes of ninth-graders euphemistically called "slow learners." Their...
...shooting was Chicago-style, but the setting was Moscow. A cop surprised four masked burglars trying to break into a store. There was a burst of gunfire, and the four leaped into a taxi and fled, leaving the policeman dying from seven bullet wounds. Eyewitnesses provided one useful clue: the gunmen wore the narrow trousers, oversized jackets and ducktail haircuts of stilyagi, the Russian version of zoot-suiters...