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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toughest Audience. Gone are the simple pleasures of the koch alain (cook alone) bungalows, the overgrown farmhouses, the adult camps that catered to the hungry garment workers, the marriage-minded Manhattan secretaries of the '205 and '303. In those days, when the whole area was happy to be known as the Borscht Belt, the camps and hotels spawned their own entertainers. Danny Kaye, Moss Hart, Dore Schary, Phil Silvers-all served their apprenticeships, responding manfully to the boss's frantic cry: "Make the guests happy...
Mueller describes himself as "a small businessman at heart." and he spent most of his adult life, and some of his childhood, in small business. He was born in Grand Rapids in 1893, one year after his German-born father established a furniture factory there. At 13 he was put to work in the factory, 16 years later was its general manager. The family firm still employs fewer than 100 workers, but Fritz Mueller has spread its name and fame by being a prodigious civic-affairs man-president of the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers Guild, the local United Hospital Fund...
...RELUCTANT DRAGON (Caedmon) tells of a poetry-loving dragon forced against his will into fighting St. George at 6-4 odds. Except when he becomes too coyly patronizing, Boris Karloff spins his tale with wit, makes it as appealing to adult listeners as its author's far more famous yarn, The Wind in the Willows...
...have gone a vital step farther, treated their virus with rabbit serum, and made a vaccine that protects a big majority of normally susceptible animals against the polyoma virus' effects. At Sloan-Kettering Institute, Dr. Charlotte Friend has cultured a strain of mouse virus that causes leukemia in adult as well as newborn animals, and has perfected a protective vaccine. So in some animals, the circle of evidence is virtually complete: viruses are linked with leukemia and certain tumors, and immunity is offered through vaccination...
...Amen.") Hill is also astonished at the "strong note of penitence and personal remorse" that runs through the prayers ("I ask thy forgiveness for all the things I have done wrong"). For many children, he says, the rite of confirmation means forgiveness of sins more than admission into the adult fellowship of the church...