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...used in my work as a motion-picture songwriter. She told me of one student who, when asked by the teacher if he was finished with his exam paper, answered, "Purt nigh but not plumb." This became the title of a song for Dinah Shore in Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick...
Norman Normal, such was his image: the Rembrandt of Punkin Crick, as one critic rather sourly called him, the folksy poet of a way of American life that slipped away as he set it down. "I do ordinary people in everyday situations," Norman Rockwell once declared, "and that's about all I can do." From the day in 1916 when he walked apprehensively into the offices of the Saturday Evening Post?already a magazine circulating 2 million copies a week?carrying a velvet-wrapped bundle of paintings and sketches to show to Editor George Lorimer, Rockwell was greeted by nothing...
...GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Let's all gather in the punkin' patch and see if the Great One will appear this year. Repeat...
...awards ceremonies understandably were filled with emotion, as the horse agents, ocelot agents, bear agents, a macaw agent and the chicken agents assembled with their clients and trainers to receive the big news. To Punkin, the glamorous raven who has been seen in TV's Lassie as well as many pictures, went the special Craven Award. This does not mean that Punkin was a craven raven; the prize, which goes to supporting players, honors the late Richard C. Craven, who was the American Humane Association's first Hollywood director. First prizewinner in films was Ben, the bear actor...
...come out of the South since Marse Robert surrendered at Appomattox. Her passel of lil ole psychopathic dimwits seems to have been spawned in a high-rent district of Tobacco Road. When Pappy Ingles, the hard-drinkin', ruttin' hero, tries to kill hisself by knocking his punkin haid against the marble top off'n a dresser, the humor turns as purplish black as a ripe fox grape. Trouble is, the author is danged serious...