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had a couple of years of medical school. He decides he'd better pack up, after all, and go back to get his degree.
"But why didn't you tell Mr. Masterson?"
"And spoil the first decent thing he ever did in his life?" says Dr. Niven.
It's a great line.
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IN general, the Fred Waring show is music and pictures — pretty music and pretty pictures, each harmonizing and enhancing the other. It's pure television.
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ONE of the curiouser facets of our generation is our mania for watching people give things away on television. Now you take Groucho Marx who is a very funny fellow, a comedian and wit of great originality. Still, he may go down in show business memory as that nice man who gives away all that money on "You Bet Your Life." You'd be surprised how many folks adore Groucho, not because he tells jokes but because he gives away money and therefore must be an awfully nice man — as dubious a theory as any I ever heard.
If that happens to be one of your enthusiasms-— watching people give away dough
— I suggest Herb Shriner who is also a very comical fellow. No one gives away money on television with such profligate gusto. All of us, I suppose, suffer a little from a Santa Claus complex but Shriner has it worse than most people. "Well," he'll say, rubbing his hands together with perverse glee, "we better give away some of this money. Got a lot of it here. Got it all baled up back there."
They sure pitch it around with abandon on that program, some contestants walking off with as much as $1,200. The more they get, the happier Shriner becomes. It's a strange vice — this giving away other people's money — and I'm not at all sure it sets a good example for the children. How can you convince a child that 7? cents is adequate weekly recompense for a week's school work when he sees a man walk off with $145 for remembering the names of four Presidents of the United States? Like as not the child can rattle off all thirty-three of them.
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New minister: "Do you think they approved of my sermon?"
Deacon: "They were all nodding, anyway."
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"Brown looks glum. He's been contesting his wife's will."
"I didn't know she was dead." "She isn't."
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Operator: "It costs $2 to talk to Bloomfield."
Customer: "Isn't there a cheaper rate for just listening? I'm calling my wife."
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One fellow boasted that he had driven a car for 20 years and never had a backseat driver. He drives a hearse.
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A long suffering school superintendent once remarked: When Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic alone it was a remarkable feat, but it would have been much more remarkable if he'd done it with a committee.