A 9-year-old intellectual kid (guess who?) stops in for a snack at the shop of a crusty old right-wing troglodyte. Strange things begin to happen, needless to say...
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The spudnut was a failed franchise chain that started in the 1940s. Amazingly, there are still a few around today.
What's on the radio: 1) "How Much Is That Doggie In the Window?"-Patti Page; 2) Jello commercial; 3) "Mr. Sandman"-The Chordettes; 4) Mayfield Cigarette commercial; 5) "Come Onna My House"-Rosemary Clooney; 6) "I Was A Communist For the FBI"-radio drama.
Pinky Lee was a real kids' show host, and he really did collapse on live TV in 1955. Not a heart attack, as first thought, but made a big impression on millions of kids.
Richard Nixon's "Checkers speech" is widely considered to have made him as a national force in the political arena. He made his views well-known that Democrats like Adlai Stevenson, who lost to Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, were furthering the Communist agenda. And, of course, even in liberal Berkeley there were rabid conservatives who railed against the "pinko" intellectuals (like, presumably, my parents) centered around the University.