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...horse operas. The networks have saddled up no fewer than 35 of the bangtail brigade, and 30 of them are riding the dollar-green range of prime night time (from 7:30 to 10 p.m.). Independent stations too have taken to the field with every wring-tailed old oat snorter they could rustle out of Hollywood's back pasture. This season, while other shows, from quizzes to comedies, were dropping right and left like well-rehearsed Indians, not a single western left the air. Indeed, 14 new ones were launched, and the networks are planning more for next year...
...bike, that joey, and you can bet the creeping bent he'll bottom on the gold. He gives up his lollies and embarks on a course of hard yacker for the local John, Sergeant Flaxman (Chips Rafferty). He even swings a government stroke or two for the amen-snorter (Ralph Richardson), bonzer old dag that. It's a zac and a deener and a caser at a time, mind you, but before you can say Yupottipotpong, he's financial. But right then-wouldn't it?-he throws a yonny through the church window and goes flat...
...Paramaribo, Surinam, where he signed short-snorter bills...
...Short Snorter. In Manitowoc, Wis., Ray Du Val, flustered at arriving late to defend his beer-drinking title, downed a gallon instead of the required half-gallon, still beat his nearest rival by ten seconds, explained his tardiness: "I was at the bar down the street having a beer...
Promptly, a Liberal Party statement cried "Totalitarian." Said the London Daily Mail: "A real snorter. . . " Revolutionary. . . ." Said a Manchester Guardian headline: "TOIL AND SWEAT-BUT NO GLORY...