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...friend, it is too true," confided the mysterious, grey-bearded hitchhiker aboard Huckleberry Finn's raft, "your eyes is lookin' at the very moment on the pore disappeared Daughin, Looy the Seventeen, son of Looy the Sixteen and Marry Antonette . . . You see before you, in blue jeans and misery, the wanderin', exiled trampled-on, and sufferin' rightful King of France...
Last week, after a two-month vacation, Mr. I. was back on TV with a 30-minute version of Huckleberry Finn. Its young-in-heart viewers are promised such future attractions as The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Stevenson's Kidnapped and a production based on Hamlet in which a child, playing a private detective, will solve the murder of Hamlet's father. The only taboos on the show are still the words "Mom and "kiddies." Says Tripp: "They just stick in my throat." About all that wil] be added are a sponsor (Nestle's Chocolate...
...Atlantic Monthly, Mary Bromfield described life with her farmer-writer husband Louis (Malabar Farm) Bromfield. The contents of his pockets, she noted, were a collection "worthy of the pockets of Huckleberry Finn ... a wallet filled with checks he has forgotten to cash ... a trick pocketknife, a cigarette holder, a cigarette lighter . . . part of a package of fruit drops, a pair of Stork Club dice ... an immense quantity of loose silver . . . clippings from the ten or twenty magazines and newspapers he reads every day, as well as a collection of crumpled and soiled memoranda...
...next year 78. By last week the Foreign Student Summer Project seemed to be a solid M.I.T. institution. Among its alumni: a West German who is building Bavaria's first electronic computer, a Norwegian who has discovered a new method of making gelatin out of seaweed, a Finn who has become editor of Finland's leading architectural magazine...
...Stretch on the River is a slight and rambling saga and its humor runs largely to wisecracks, but it has a fine, easy familiarity with river life and describes its spell with casual, vernacular effectiveness. Though the book is no Huckleberry Finn, it has some of Mark Twain's own feeling for the rugged, easygoing river hands on the Mississippi...