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...niece, dark-eyed Marjorie Mosser. Niece Mosser looks like the portrait of Grandmother Tibbets that hangs in the Rocky Pasture living room. When she came to work for him, Roberts warned her, "Before I'm through with a book, you'll think I'm the worst stinker that ever lived. But you'll never be fired." She has lived through three books, Trending into Maine, March to Quebec and Wiswell, has also (at Gourmet Roberts' suggestion) written one of her own -a recipe book called Good Maine Food. Third member of the Roberts household...
...Time Wife" is another average picture, and maybe two average pictures will do just as well as one good picture and a stinker. New the plot of this picture may not be very new, but you can see that it deals with a pretty important problem. Especially important to Linda Darnell--she's the wife--who doesn't think it's such a good idea to be a wife only during the day-time. That's only normal of course, and Ty Power was an ass not to realize it sooner than he did; but anyway the horse-play that...
...Maurice Milligan it was sweet revenge, because Boss Pendergast tried to block his reappointment as U. S. District Attorney last year. For everyone ever connected with Boss Pendergast it was a stinker. The indictment blackened some clouds already hanging dark over the Boss ever since Missouri Circuit Judge Allen C. Southern began to root out gambling and vice in Pendergastland (TIME, Feb. 6). The Boss had known the blow-off was coming: last month his nephew Jim Pendergast and Police Chief Otto Higgins tramped up & down Washington trying to find some one to call off Maurice Milligan...
...absolute howl on the British Broadcasting Corp.'s Wednesday night Band Wagon is "Resident Comedian" Arthur Askey, who is a sort of British Joe Cook. Month or so ago Askey ("Big-Hearted Arthur") and his stooge, Stinker Murdoch, made a batter of mainly carbolic acid and turpentine for some cakes to discourage an unwanted guest. The batter was to be called Askitoff. In mixing it they professed to spill some on the carpet, whereupon the dirt magically disappeared. This was, Askey's cue to crack "Askitoff will take it off." Thereafter Askey began repeating the crack several times...
...down to spend his days as a schoolmaster at Sedbergh School, in Yorkshire. There he stayed for 17 years, leaving in friendly, dignified disagreement with the Head because he would not consider preparing boys for confirmation. A master of unbendingly upright character, a pipe-puffer, he was called "Joey Stinker" because he always smelled of tobacco. In a hard-working staff he set the pace, averaged ten hours work a day in term-time, including Sundays. Though he did not feel qualified to be a spiritual mentor, he was religious in the British sense, never missed his daily exercise...