Word: olson
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Wayne is a fervent hypochondriac who, listening in on his doctor's phone call about a doomed patient, concludes it is he who is doomed and makes wheelchair preparations for dying, death and burial. When this misunderstanding is cleared up, a new misunderstanding is quickly brewed: now Nancy Olson, Wayne's pretty wife, decides that all the wheelchair stuff was just a gimmick to cover up a love affair...
...road, and one of them points out that he plays a new part with each. Ruth Boyd (1940-47) was Social Register. Marion Bell (1947-49) was his Leading Lady, as she was in Brigadoon, and she came to the wedding with her music teacher. Actress Nancy Olson (1950-57) was the Upper-Middle-Class-All-Amer-ican-Girl (Lerner referred to her once as "the perfect wife"). Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo (1957 ), a slim, blonde, Corsican beauty equipped with a law degree and a fine record at the French bar, is Sophisticated European Woman...
...While Olson was in jail, the state police also rummaged through his cottage without a search warrant, removed and destroyed several of his books. Among them: Crime and Punishment and One, Two, Three, Infinity, a lively treatise on numbers by Physicist George Gamow...
Unaware of his legal rights, Olson stayed in jail for twelve days without realizing that he could get out by paying $300 bail. Then to his rescue came Attorney Clair Hoehn, president of the school board in Gladstone, 40 miles from Thompson. "Ridiculous," said Hoehn, after reading The Stranger himself. "This boy just wanted his students to have some different reading than 'Run, Dick...
Attorney Hoehn soon discovered something even more ridiculous: Justice of the Peace Howard Magoon jailed Teacher Olson under an obscenity law that Michigan repealed in 1957. Last week Circuit Court Judge George Baldwin threw out Olson's conviction. Any "lurid remarks" in The Stranger, ruled Baldwin, are "minor" compared to many in the Bible. But former Teacher Olson is still vainly trying to find a job of any kind in Michigan's Upper Peninsula...