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Commercials of the stomach-turning variety got a good going-over last week from a listener with a sensitive stomach and a big audience. In Reader's Digest, Robert Littell protested against broadcast ads which made "some stranger's gizzards come bounding right into the room." He called such commercials "plug-uglies" and announced the formation of the outraged order of Plug Shrinkers...
Soon afterward, Burl ambled over to CBS to sing on Back Where I Come From. A million listeners were soon tuning in regularly to hear the "Wayfarin' Stranger." Strumming a tentative chord or two, singing as though he were alone and were singing just to hear himself sing, Burl acquainted his listeners with such magic Americana as Sweet Betsy from Pike...
...fiction -from which it grew. The second is about Huckleberry Finn, and DeVoto prints several revealing pages of Mark Twain's notes for it. The third tells, briefly, of the years of all-but-annihilating personal crisis which Mark Twain managed to resolve in The Mysterious Stranger...
Plea. In The Bronx, Joseph Penner,-charged with smoking in the subway, told the judge he never smoked but a stranger had asked him to and he hated to offend him. Fine...
Collector. In Nottingham, England, police hunted a stranger who got into Mabel Foulkes's house, pushed her into a chair, pulled one of her teeth, fled the scene brandishing it aloft, crying, "What a beauty...