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WESTPORT, CONN. Country Playhouse. Hans Conried plays a retired Connecticut Yankee chicken farmer who finds New York commuters both the boon and bane of his existence in Herman Shumlin's Spofford, a cut-down version of Peter De Vries' novel, Reuben, Reuben...
...smudging barn there are knots of unrecognizable figures waddling around and trying to get close to the smudge pot blazing in the center of the room. All the smudgers have to wait until Shorty or Reuben or one of the other foremen reports in that one of the groves has hit 26 degrees. It's always easy for veterans to pick out the novices in the waiting crowds: first-time smudgers stupidly wear clean clothes, not knowing that their whole body surfaces will be coated with a delightful smudge-oil layer by the time they get done. The novices also...
...cool the U.S. economy soon, Economist Walter W. Heller last week recalled an old poker-room joke that, he said, he had heard from President Johnson. It has to do with a professional dealer who is getting an unexpected show of strength from one of the local yokels. "Reuben," says the shark, "you better play fair, because I know exactly what I dealt...
...this analogy, Reuben is the free-spending U.S. consumer, who is apparently playing all too fast and loose. Despite a deliberate anti-inflation deal from Uncle Sam, who enacted the 10% tax surcharge in July, the consumer is buying even more than he did before. During the third quarter of the year, savings declined while consumer spending actually rose to 10% over the level of the same quarter last year...
...collapsing staircase left him with a broken leg, a Boston furniture mover sued the owner of the building for $35,000. After each side presented its case, the attorney for the building owner complained that the moving man had come nowhere near justifying his claim. Superior Court Judge Reuben Lurie agreed, and he upheld a motion asking for a directed verdict in favor of the defendant. Under Massachusetts law, there was only one formality left. The clerk intoned: "Mr. Foreman and members of the jury, hearken to your verdict. The jury finds for the defendant by order of the court...