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...TALE OF PETER RABBIT (Wonderland). This tops all other versions of the oft-told Beatrix Potter classic. Vivien Leigh tells it as if she had grown up at the foot of the old fir tree, and Lyricist David Croft and Musician Cyril Ornadel hit it off like Lerner & Loewe. It takes a hard heart not to melt at naughty Peter's wistful "Why do I do it?" Pity that this team has cut only two other Potter records: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...
Richest sources of comedy are the stars, Batman (Lewis Wilson) and Robin (Douglas Croft). As Socialite Bruce Wayne and his ward, Dick Grayson, the two actors draw sneers every time they appear in their '40s street clothes (huge, wide-brimmed fedoras, oversized suits with cantilevered shoulders); when they change to their fighting costumes (masks, jersey pajamas, capes, Jockey shorts and boots), Wilson and Croft prompt more laughter than any other pair since Laurel and Hardy...
what I dared not hope or fight for is, in my fifties, mine, a toft-and-croft where I needn't, ever, be at home to those I am not at home with, not a cradle, a magic Eden without clocks, and not a windowless grave, but a place I may go both...
...Bear Lake, where Snow Summit will have more than 20,000 people schussing and slaloming next weekend. Some citizens of Phoenix, Albuquerque, and points in between will strap skis on top of their station wagons, in apparent defiance of the dry, hot desert air, and head for Ski Cloud Croft or Sierra Blanca in the Sacramento mountains north of Alamogordo...
LEANING back with his alligator pumps up on his bare desk, President Terrell Croft Drinkwater, 55, of Western Air Lines conveys the impression that his job is soft and his approach rustic. Not so. Drinkwater is a shrewd airman who has lifted his line from a $945,000 loss in 1947, when he took it over, to earnings of $7,278,000 tor the first nine months of 1963. While he introduced such imaginative sales devices as the champagne flight and the napkin with a button hole, Drinkwater is fundamentally an efficiency expert. "We're great disciples...