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...beady eyes within his Hereford face rove the studio, missing nothing. Dean, whose recording of Big, Bad John once sent all teenagers, is really the darling of their mothers, who want to call him in off the street and give him a slice of warm pie with melting vanilla ice cream on it. Incredible as it may seem to ABC's metropolitan viewers, he may be around for a long time. It's a big country...
...hens are baked in beer, and the glazing of apples is less important than fortifying the cook ("If you'd like to get a little glazed yourself, pour a shot of rum or brandy in"). Some of his recipes read like calisthenic exercises: "Now add the vanilla and beat! beat! beat! If you think you are too beat to beat any more, you are a quitter!" Others encourage the housewife to pick quarrels with the quartermaster: "Ask butcher to lard beef with 1-in. strips of salt pork. If he won't take the trouble, curse him roundly...
...member of the gallery staff announced that she had successfully achieved blue ice cream. She had mixed blue dye and vanilla ice cream with a monkey wrench. The New Frontier moved an inch forward on its stools...
Papa's Delicate Condition. "Vanilla." That's what Jackie Gleason calls his latest picture and that's what it basically is: sweet enough for the kids, plain enough for the grown folks-something the whole family can swallow without collywobbles. The concoction is inexpensive and attractive, and it should leave most customers ready (if not exactly roaring) for a second helping...
...what does Mama (Glynis Johns) think of that? Don't worry. Faced with a choice between love and liquor, Papa gives up the hard sauce and at the happy-family fade decides he'll take vanilla...