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...generations of American boys, the name of A. C. (for Alfred Carlton) Gilbert has evoked the magic of discovery and invention. The firm that Gilbert founded and built into the nation's leading maker of scientific and educational toys, New Haven's A. C. Gilbert Co., pours forth a whole world of challenging and instructive toys that range from his famous Erector set and American Flyer scale-model electric trains to compact lessons in chemistry, biology and physics. Far more than a successful businessman (his firm now sells $13 million a year in some 50 items), Gilbert...
Died. Alfred Carlton Gilbert, 76, toy inventor and manufacturer who convinced millions of parents that a boy's best friend is his Erector set and who himself lived a real life of fun and games as Olympic pole vaulter and big-game hunter; of a heart attack; in Boston (see BUSINESS...
...frenzied than in the noontime babble at the National Capital Democratic Club, a luncheon club that suddenly found itself doing a land office business. Initiation fees leaped from $30 to $50, and the board of governors was seeking a larger clubhouse to replace its outgrown quarters in the Sheraton-Carlton dining room. The new elite were greeted effusively at the club: Labor Secretary-designate Arthur Goldberg, dropping in for lunch with Michigan's Senator Pat McNamara, was welcomed by kisses from female members, wrenching handshakes from...
...City. Boston, in the view of its Broadway visitors, is a city as unreal as Morgan le Fay's forest, consisting of just a few buildings and a couple of dozen cabs. As Camelot principals were shuttling back and forth between the gilt Shubert Theater and the plush Ritz-Carlton Hotel, everyone was rewriting Camelot. Bit players were suggesting changes to chorus girls. Even floor waiters appeared to have a new second act under their silver dish covers recalling Moss Hart's adage that when a show is in trouble, room service invariably seems awful...
Shut away in the Ritz-Carlton, Lerner fills Apartment 1004 with cigarette smoke and new lines for Camelot. Across the hall in another suite, his two-year-old son Michael listens to a phonograph not Lerner and Loewe, but Au Clair de la Lune. Up in 1204, Loewe ("Sir Aggravate," as Lerner nicknames him) broods under the fond eye of his current, 24-year-old girl friend; he calls her "baby boy," she calls him "baby bear." For hours each day, Lerner joins Loewe at the piano as they work together on four new songs, including one called The Seven...