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00:00The fate of a broken heart
00:04And now, in answer to innumerable requests, I will sing Song of Hiawatha
00:10By the shores of Gitsy Goomy, by the shining Bixy Wolf
00:30By the shores of Gitsy Goomy, by the shining Bixy Wolf
01:00So, from now on, I'll be in special classes for everything
01:16Oh, Jeff, that's marvelous! Isn't it wonderful, Fred?
01:19I don't know. What kind of special classes are you talking about?
01:23All the kids are strictly A students, all advanced
01:26Oh, Jeff, I've always known that I had an exceptional son
01:31This will prove it to the whole world
01:33What about your regular classes?
01:35Oh, they'll continue, same as before, but without me
01:38I won't be held back by the slow students anymore
01:41Oh, darling, I can't tell you how proud I am
01:44Mona, he hasn't won the Nobel Prize yet
01:47Oh, but he might
01:48He might! Right, darling?
01:50Well...
01:51What about Harold Baxter? Was he moved up with you?
01:55No, he stays where he is
01:57Well, just because you were put into special classes
02:00Is certainly no reason for you to drop a good friend like Harold
02:03Oh, well, I'm not exactly dropping him
02:06It's just that we'll be studying different things now
02:09And I won't see much of him
02:11I'll be associating more with kids of my own IQ
02:15You know
02:16Oh, I see
02:18Well, if you'll excuse me, I have some reading to do
02:22I have to sharpen up on my ecology
02:24On what?
02:26Ecology
02:27The branch of biology that deals with the relations between living organisms and their environment
02:32That's good
02:34Because it already sounds to me like that may be one of your weak points
02:38Oh, what kind of a row did you kids have?
02:44No, Ralph
02:46Jeff was transferred into a special class, that's all
02:49Yeah?
02:50How special?
02:52Pretty special, I guess
02:53Only all A students are picked for
02:56They don't want any dumbbells like me
02:58Hey, wait a minute
03:00You ain't no dumbbell
03:01Well, I'm no whiz kid either
03:03I tell you what
03:05Why don't you and me have a game of catch?
03:06I can help you with your slider
03:08You know, before I have to start dinner, huh?
03:11No, thanks, Hazel
03:12Guess I'd better get started with my homework
03:15Without Jeff's help, it'll take me three times as long as it used to
03:19Mr. Steve, I'm worried about Harold
03:41Harold?
03:42What's the matter with him?
03:43Well, he ain't himself since Jeff
03:45Don't have time for him anymore
03:47Oh, that
03:48Well, I wouldn't worry about it, Hazel
03:50He'll snap out of it in a day or so
03:52Oh, I don't know about that
03:54Ain't you noticed how much time he spends up in his room?
03:57Oh, I thought he was doing his homework
03:59It's about half and half
04:01Half studying and half moping about losing his friend
04:04Oh, kids don't fret about things like that these days, Hazel
04:08There's too much going on around them
04:10You mark my word
04:11Harold will have a new friend
04:12Or some new hobby to occupy his spare time
04:15Before the week's over
04:16Oh, you're a genius, Mr. Steve
04:19You just gave me a doozy of an idea
04:22How are you?
04:30Hi, Hazel
04:30I got a big surprise for you
04:34Hey, a gas-powered model airplane
04:44Yeah, looks like the real thing, don't it?
04:46I'll see
04:47It's got a touchdown controller
04:49And the lines to fly it by
04:51And the batteries
04:52The whole works
04:53This is great, but how do you fly her?
04:56Oh, I've been reading the instructions
04:58It's a cinch
04:59Well, I've seen some of the guys at school flying them
05:01But I don't know much about it
05:03Well, why don't we take it out and try it out?
05:05I'll just get my coat
05:06Wait a minute
05:17Boy, I must be doing something wrong
05:20Well, let me try it
05:21Engine needs a little more prime
05:31Okay, contact
05:36Contact
05:37You did it
05:45Okay
05:46She's ready to go
05:48Lock your arm
05:58Oh, gee, I'm sorry
06:09Oh, boy
06:10Yeah, it looks all right
06:12Oh, that's good
06:13You went into a spin
06:15Well, I'm supposed to be the ground crew
06:17You're supposed to be the pilot
06:19Okay, let's try it again
06:22All right, now
06:22I'm Hazel Burke, you know
06:24Not Amelia Earhart
06:26Let's try it again
06:36Let's try it again
06:37Oh, gee, let's go
06:41Let's try it again
06:42Okay, let's try it again
06:45Thank you
06:47Tommt
06:48Oh, my God.
07:18Well, even the Wright brothers had to practice.
07:23This isn't as good as your last report card.
07:26I know.
07:27Well, he got an A in attendance and a B in conduct.
07:30So he shows up and behaves himself. Big deal.
07:33Math D. You're failing in math.
07:35Last time you had a C+. What happened?
07:38Jeff Williams used to help me with my lessons, but...
07:41Harold, you can't go through life depending on other people to help you.
07:45I suppose not.
07:47I don't know. He's just not concentrating enough on his studies
07:50since Hazel bought him that model airplane.
07:53Oh, now, Steve, that's not true.
07:55He spends almost every evening on his homework.
07:58I just don't understand that new math, Uncle Steve.
08:01What's new about it?
08:02Cheating everything.
08:03Oh, come on. The multiplication table is still the multiplication table.
08:08I mean, all you have to do is memorize it.
08:10Why are you shaking your head?
08:13You don't use the multiplication tables in the new math.
08:17Why not?
08:18Sure, it's me.
08:20What do you use?
08:21Don't tell me they've done away with numbers.
08:23No.
08:25But, well, numbers have neighbors.
08:28And sometimes when they're odd, you add five.
08:31And then you take half away or something like that.
08:36Do you know anything about it, honey?
08:38Oh, not me.
08:39I still haven't learned the old math.
08:45How are the other kids doing with it?
08:47Some of them are beginning to catch on, I guess.
08:49Well, then you can catch on, too.
08:51I'll tell you what, pal.
08:52Next time you have a math problem, I'll help you out.
08:55Okay?
08:56Gee, thanks, Uncle Steve.
08:58I'll go get one.
09:04Harold, what's the difference between the label number and the multiple number?
09:08Well, I'm not sure.
09:09Well, didn't your teacher explain it to you?
09:11Well, she got kind of confused herself.
09:13Oh, boy.
09:15Harold, how many kids in your class?
09:18Twenty-two.
09:19That's just about how many different answers your teacher's going to get.
09:22This is ridiculous.
09:26Darling, you're looking for something.
09:39Mother, have you seen my copy of the atomic theory of Lucretius?
09:45Oh, I'm sorry, dear.
09:48I just picked it up to see what you were studying now,
09:50and I got so absorbed in it that I couldn't put it down.
09:52Oh, great the way he expounded the doctrine of the atoms in the void, wouldn't you say?
09:57Fascinating.
09:58And so many centuries ago.
10:00The important thing one must remember, of course,
10:04is the extreme difficulty of his task.
10:07Lucretius had to set forth a philosophical argument
10:11in a language which had not yet developed a philosophic vocabulary,
10:15and, moreover, had to expound it in Hexameter-verse.
10:20Yes.
10:23Well, you can have this back as soon as I'm finished with it.
10:26I just have to look up a couple of things.
10:28Well, fine, but don't let me hold you up with your studies.
10:31Anything wrong, Dad?
10:38No, no, I've just got a little book work to finish.
10:41You've been working on it all evening, darling.
10:43You said it would only take a little while.
10:45Well, I ran into a little trouble adding up this last column of figures.
10:48As soon as I get the same answer twice, I will be finished.
10:52Here, let me take a look at it.
10:53That's it, that's it.
11:01$602.12.
11:02Here.
11:04Here, that's the same answer I got the first time.
11:07But not quite that fast.
11:08I use new math.
11:10It's much faster and more accurate.
11:12New math.
11:14You know, Dad,
11:16I think it'd be a good idea if you went to night school to learn it.
11:19You're not too old, yet.
11:21He's right, friend.
11:24Why, you should try to improve yourself, if only for Jeff's sake.
11:28Now, wait a minute, you two.
11:29Well, Dad,
11:30I think it'd be a much better use of your time
11:32than going over to the Baxter's to play pool every chance you get.
11:46Oh, darn it.
11:48It's all his fault.
11:51I mean, Jeff.
11:52He's got me feeling guilty about being over here.
11:55Why?
11:57Well, he said I should be a night school,
11:59improving my mind,
12:00instead of here wasting my time playing pool.
12:03Jeff said that to you?
12:05Oh, since he's been proclaimed a genius,
12:07he shoots his mouth off about everything.
12:09Well, he's still not too old to be spanked.
12:11Yeah, but Monet is.
12:13She's his 24-hour-a-day press agent.
12:15I know she's terribly proud of him.
12:18I tell you,
12:19you know, things are getting so bad at my house
12:20that next I expect Jeff will criticize my table manners.
12:24There's no doubt it's very important for gifted children
12:27to have every opportunity to develop their talents.
12:30Please, Barb.
12:32I hear that all the time at home.
12:34Now, Fred, let me finish.
12:36But it's no good if they begin to believe they're superior to everyone else.
12:41I agree.
12:42I suppose it's all this emphasis on trying to get to the moon,
12:46the need to develop scientists, to conquer space.
12:50Seems to me the only real space that needs conquering is between people.
12:55As far as I'm concerned,
12:57Jeff can be the greatest thing since apple pie,
12:59as long as he realizes that smart people
13:01have got to live in the same world with people that ain't so smart.
13:05Boy, if the kids today don't start helping each other,
13:08we won't have much of a world to look forward to.
13:11Fifteen in the corner.
13:16Well, that'll be a buck apiece, gentlemen.
13:27Thank you very much.
13:32Boy, we're getting pretty good at this, ain't we, Spod?
13:35You really think so?
13:37I mean, I know you can do your part okay,
13:39but if I thought I was good enough,
13:41I'd like to try out for the next AMA contest.
13:43AMA? You mean the doctors are sponsoring flying contests?
13:48No, Academy of Model Aeronautics.
13:51Oh, that's well. What are the rules?
13:53Well, for control line planes like ours,
13:56there's three classes, junior, senior, and open.
13:59But I need a lot more practice on my outside loops.
14:02Well, what are we waiting for?
14:04Let's keep practicing.
14:05Ha, ha, ha.
14:07We'll ride.
14:11We'll ride a ride.
14:13Oh, yeah.
14:13We'll ride.
14:14Come on.
14:14Yeah.
14:15Yeah.
14:21Oh, yeah.
14:22oh hi Jeff oh hi he's pretty good at that don't you think fair fair well boy do you think you
14:50could do any better I've never tried better look simple enough oh you have to be real expert you
15:02know to pull off a stunt like that Harold's practicing so we go in the AMA contest playing
15:10with a toy and a string no it's oh it's nothing
15:20oh Mr. Williams thanks for coming right over Hazel what's happened that's so important you
15:40couldn't tell me on the phone well can you get home from work early tomorrow
15:44yeah I guess but why well I got an idea I don't know whether it's gonna work or not
15:49but it's worth trying and how are your knees my what well you're gonna have to do a lot of kneeling
15:56for what I have in mind well they're okay I guess well now this is my plan
16:02okay Mr. Williams let her go
16:07yeah
16:14yeah
16:15yeah
16:17yeah
16:20yeah
16:22yeah
16:24yeah
17:26Let's try another one.
17:28Okay, fill her up.
17:31Let's try another one.
18:02Could I talk to you?
18:04What about?
18:05I don't know. About anything. Can't we just talk?
18:09I don't know. It seems that there hasn't been much for you and me to discuss lately.
18:16I guess I've been pretty busy.
18:20But...
18:20Well, would you buy one of those gas-powered model planes for me?
18:25Well, do you think you're going to have time for one of those things?
18:27Hey, it's not just a toy, you know.
18:29I mean, I could learn a lot about the way design and manipulation affect the responses of airfoils.
18:36Oh, I see.
18:38Well, how about it, Dad? It's a good idea, don't you think?
18:42Well, maybe.
18:44But you know, it takes two people to operate those things.
18:47Do you think Harold would give you a hand?
18:51I was sort of counting on you.
18:54Well, actually, I don't see how I'd have time for it, Jeff.
18:57Well, why not? I saw you helping Harold fly his.
19:01Sure, but that was just for today.
19:03You see, I've been thinking about that advice you gave me.
19:07What advice?
19:08About going to night school.
19:10Oh, that.
19:13I'm sorry, I was such a smart aleck.
19:16Oh, you were right about one thing.
19:18A person shouldn't stop learning just because he's graduated from college.
19:21No, but I was all wrong about suggesting you should learn a new math.
19:26Oh?
19:27I talked it over with my teacher today.
19:29I mean, he said that, besides being a smart aleck,
19:33I gave you the wrong advice.
19:35He did?
19:36He said that it's tough enough on teachers and other adults
19:39who have to learn the new math
19:40because they have to use it in their professions,
19:43but that he certainly wouldn't advise it as a course for the average parent.
19:48Well, in that case,
19:50I guess I'll have a little time for flying after all.
19:52May I have your attention, please?
20:02Junior class elimination trials in the stunt category
20:05begin in approximately three minutes.
20:08All junior class stunt competitors, please be ready.
20:13That's you, sport.
20:15Be ready as soon as I finish gassing her up.
20:27Oh, look, there's Jeff and his dad.
20:30Maybe I should enter in a combat competition, too.
20:33Then I can knock his wings off.
20:34Oh, that ain't a nice way to talk.
20:37Well, that's what you're supposed to do in combat
20:39while the other guy riding to the ground.
20:43The way it looks to me, he might not even get off the ground.
20:51Your attention, please.
20:54Junior class stunt competition trials will now begin.
20:57The first pilot is Anderson.
21:00Andrew Anderson.
21:06Sport, why don't you go over and see if you can't help Jeff?
21:21Well, they've been flying that plane for weeks.
21:23Besides, Jeff's so smart, he never has any problems.
21:26But he ain't smart about motors the way you are.
21:29When is it going to be your turn?
21:31As soon as they call me, we go alphabetically.
21:33Well, you could still help them if you hurry.
21:36Well...
21:37Hi, Harold.
21:42Hello, Mr. Williams.
21:44Yeah, hi.
21:45We can't get the motor started.
21:47Maybe I can get it.
21:56No wonder your battery clip isn't making good content.
22:06There, that should do it.
22:13How about that?
22:14We never even thought about checking the battery clip.
22:22Baxter.
22:23Harold Baxter.
22:24Hey, that's me.
22:25I'm next.
22:26Thank you and good luck.
22:58Oh, my God.
23:28Oh, hi there. Come on in. They're in the living room.
23:32Hello, Hazel.
23:33Hi there, Ace. I didn't get a chance to congratulate you for qualifying for the finals.
23:39Oh, thank you, Hazel. I couldn't have done it if it wasn't for Harold.
23:43Where is he? He's upstairs in his room studying. I told him I'd come over and help him with his homework.
23:50You did?
23:51Ah, that's great.
23:53You bet he did. I want to apologize for the ridiculous way I've been acting lately, but, well, Jeff is just so bright.
24:00Now, Mona, remember what his teacher said about giving him too much praise?
24:04Oh, all right. I was coming to that. Anyway, forgive me.
24:08Well, of course.
24:09I hear Jeff really put on a show at that meet today.
24:12Yeah, it seems he never loses. You know, that kind of scares me a little.
24:15Oh, I wouldn't worry too much about it, Mr. Williams.
24:18Something more important than winning happened today. Them kids became friends again.
24:22I guess they'll be flying their planes together from now on.
24:25I certainly hope so. To tell you the truth, my knees gave out a week ago.
24:29Hey, how about a few games of rotation?
24:32Good. Say, two bits a game?
24:34Well, you better make it easy on yourself, Mr. Williams.
24:38On second thought, ten cents a game?
24:40Yeah, that makes more sense.
24:41On second thought, ten cents a game?
24:54Yeah.
24:55Oh, yeah.
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