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...Carver, who lives in a first-floor room of the big white house and knits delicate white bedspreads for her young relatives. There on a visit may be Joe's married sister, Mrs. Donneita Lampley. At the supper table too will be Joe's mother, pert, determined Thelma Ashley Carver Moore, now 44, who, in addition to her heavy household duties, holds down the job of Jackson County School Supervisor. She still finds time, once a year, to pack her husband into a car and go on a long trip (several years ago Joe quit going along...
Perhaps as a recurrence of thumb-sucking in a higher form, Joe thought long and seriously about becoming a professional pop singer. For as far back as he could remember, he and Donneita had sung in the parlor while Thelma Moore beat out tunes on the upright piano. As a duet, Joe and Donneita appeared on a Cookeville radio station program and at Rotary club and other similar gatherings in the area. A Sinatra-type baritone, Joe made his first trip to Kansas City to sing at the national F.F.A. convention there. For the fact that he is not today...
...proves to be a mean little stinker who kills puppy dogs, and his daughter Thelma a snobbish, touch-me-not icicle who is ashamed of her father and mother and their back-country ways...
...grows up to be a spiv and live with a prostitute. Thelma grows up to marry an aging lawyer and develop arty airs at musicales. Stan's bitter cup is not full, however, until Amy. in a climacteric crisis, commits adultery with a red-haired traveling salesman. A tongue-tied Lear, Stan buries his sorrow in a drunken, big-city binge, winds up lying among empty crates in a side-street lot and spits at the "paper sky, quite flat, and white, and Godless...
...week before the first show was televised, 14,000 people, hopefully eying the jackpot, had begged to be contestants. The lucky two chosen for the first show: Mrs. Thelma Bennett, a pretty housewife from Trenton, N.J. who is an expert on the movies, and Redmond O'Hanlon, a New York cop, who has five children and a wide knowledge of Shakespeare. Mrs. Bennett missed out on the $8,000 (the question: Name the Columbia movie which won almost all the 1934 Oscars, its stars and its director*), but was sent home with a nice consolation prize...