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Wednesday, March 13 HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (ABC, 8:30-11 p.m.).* Danny Kaye as the old Danish storyteller, assisted by Farley Granger and Ballerina Jeanmaire...
...some cities, children are learning to make movies at the same time that they are mastering the ABCs. In Lexington, Mass., for example, Yvonne Andersen, 36, runs an extracurricular workshop where children aged five to twelve are introduced to the rudiments of animated film. Their work shows a freedom, verve and humor that Disney might have admired. Their short subjects (four minutes maximum) range from settings of favorite nursery rhymes to imaginative moralistic fables like The Amazing Colossal Man, written and produced by a dozen workshoppers. In this no-nonsense parable, suspicious earthlings annihilate a peace envoy from outer space...
...Godtfred Kirk Christian sen, 47, is fond of remarking that even the best is none too good for children, and he should know what he is talking about: the worldwide success of his Lego toymaking business has all the ingredients of a modern-day Hans Chris tian Andersen fairy tale. An anomaly among internationally minded Danish executives, Christiansen speaks no for eign languages, bases his family-owned enterprise not in Copenhagen but in the remote Jutland village of Billund (pop. 1,300). Nonetheless, his up-from-nothing business has annual sales of more than $30 million, now accounts for almost...
SPECIAL ON CBS, The Emperor's New Clothes (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Jim Filer's musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic performed by New York's Prince Street Players, Ltd. Will B. Able, Marcie Stringer and Fred Grades star...
...into the railroad business after a 1954 proxy fight, when he took control of the smallish Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway. A 27-year-old accountant named Provo was brought in to help straighten out the corporate mess. Heineman liked Provo, and soon after hired him away from Arthur Andersen & Co., the accounting firm, and gave him a vice-presidency. Two years later, Heineman moved to the C. & N.W. and took Provo along...