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...shows have been triumphs of vulgarityjust most of them. In between the mice-bombing-the-cat and Samantha-fixes-the-plumbing repeats, there has been some tasteful and educational fare. Mr. I Magination took kids on gentle fictional trips, won awards??and lost sponsorship. The science-oriented Mr. Wizard lasted 14 years, was canceled in 1965. Ding Dong School, starring Dr. Frances Horwich, was a gentle, preschool program that provided a nannyish instructor for a babysitter. She, too, became an unreplaced dropout...
...prize for 1928, recently awarded her, amounts this year to $42,000, some half of which she has already given to charitable maintenance of mentally deficient children. The Nobel Prize, established in 1896 by the will of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, consists of five annual awards???one of them for "idealistic literature." Notable recipients have been Kipling, Maeterlinck, Tagore, Knut Hamsun, Anatole France, Yeats, Shaw, Henri Bergson...
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