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Night Life (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS). Cab Galloway, Pearl Bailey and Eddie Condon do some rug-cutting...
...Hearst begs him to accept $50,000 a year for some random reportage. He has another bedside chat with the President (Lanny edits one of F.D.R.'s speeches, in which he invents and inserts the phrase "arsenal of democracy"), and is off to see Adolf Hitler chew a rug. Göring smuggle a swallow of dope, and "Rudi" Hess resolve to fly to England...
Dropping "The Great Gatsby" on the rug, Vag walked over to the mantlepiece, poured out an inch of Southern Comfort, and proposed a toast. "Here's to you, F. Scott Fitzvag," he murmured, downing the 100 proof liquid. Something about bananas and refrigerators was coming out of the radio, and seated again the chair, his ears turning a dull crimson, Vag began to see the happy scenes...
...mused, and. . . "Reading Period," he screamed to the squirrels and pigeons. It wasn't too late. He started off rapidly toward Widener, kept on past it, dodged across Mass. Avenue, bounded down Holyoke Street and raced up the stairs to his room. "The Great Gatsby" was on the rug where he had left it, and there was an inch of amber left in the bottle on the mantlepiece. F. Scott Fitzvag held the bottle up to the light, proposed a toast, and slowly let the liquid run into the glass with the Harvard Seal on the side...
Instead of thrusting pins into a dummy or crossing her eyes in a victim's presence, she simply mutilated his photograph. She removed curses by the same dreary system: applicants for de-hexing were told to put a torn photograph under a rug, with the feet pointing to the door so the hex could walk...