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...steel-rimmed-glasses granny (Irene Ryan) is cordon bluegrass when it comes to cooking hawg jowls, fat back, corn pone, mustard greens, salted-down possum belly, squirrel shanks, crow gizzards, and boiled toad. Her granddaughter Elly May resembles Al Capp's Daisy Mae from head to toes, notably in profile. She is a tomboy, but she somehow wears Levi's as if they were a bikini. Actress Donna Douglas is typecast in the part. A few years ago she was the best hot-pepper eater in Baywood, La., where she also played boys' football, pitched in softball...
...kindly, top-hatted rabbit named Uncle Wiggily as an extra assignment from his police beat on the Newark (N.J.) Evening News in 1909, who went on to write 200 children's books of the bunny's adventures in Hollow Stump with Fuzzy Wuzzy Nurse Jane and Dr. Possum that sold more than 5,000,000 copies; of leukemia; in Northampton, Mass...
Speeth junked the books. Appealing to his children's imaginations, Speeth substituted T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Later, in fifth grade, he handed out mimeographed excerpts from Baldassare Castiglione's 16th century Book oj the Courtier. He soon had youngsters memorizing Yeats and Shakespeare -and writing creditable poetry...
...Senator from Wisconsin (whom Kelly called "one of the great alltime comedians") that the Orlando, Fla., Sentinel threw out Kelly's strip, and several other papers filed complaints. Again in 1958, when the furor over public school integration reached one of its peaks, Kelly set Pogo the possum to talking about "speakeasy" schoolrooms, "consegregated," "de-consegregated" and "non-un-de-consegregated" schools. One Southern paper, by judicious editing, purified the sequence for its readers, and another dropped it entirely...
...mechanics of viral cell invasion, researchers now know of fascinating variations in the process. Occasionally and inexplicably; they have learned, viral nucleic-acid particles enter cells and "go underground," lying there dormant or masked for years. Or the nascent "pro-virus" molecules of new nucleic acid may play possum in this way. Virologists are having to coin words such as virion, capsid and capsomere to describe viral particles and their parts...