Word: frere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation that has been gradually cooking in the Pennsylvania Dutch hills along with the ovens full of African cocoa beans: Hershey is becoming more than a candymaker. Since 1966, the company has acquired two macaroni firms (San Giorgio and Delmonico Foods), a French Canadian baking company (David & Frere, Ltée.) and, for $23 million two months ago, the Cory Corp. of Chicago, which makes coffee brewers, appliances, pens and automatic pencils. Non-candy operations will soon account for 35% of Hershey sales...
...days when small chil dren played contentedly with featureless rag dolls. Today's vogue is for realism, and toymakers now turn out dolls that can walk, talk, cry and even wet. When Frank Caplan, general manager of Creative Playthings, Inc., spotted a French doll called Petit Frere at Nürnberg's doll fair last March, he jumped at the opportunity to buy up distribution rights for the U.S. Renamed "Little Brother," the doll has a sweet angelic face, is, in fact, modeled after a Verrocchio Renaissance cherub in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, and has the normal...
...DECORATIVE ARTS OF THE MARINER edited by Gervis Frere-Cook. 296 pages. Little, Brown. $20. Marine art is given its due in this splendid account of state barges, navigational instruments, figureheads, decorative rope and scrimshaw (see cut, opening page). The ships themselves come in all styles and ages from Mississippi steamboats to Malay proas, from Chinese dragon boats to Atlantic liners. An enjoyable whiff...
Daisy, an eight-year-old Puerto Rican girl, started to cry whenever her third-grade teacher began a reading lesson-but she grinned when the class sang to the tune of Frere Jacques: "Are you happy, are you happy?" Edward, a Negro first-grader, stared at his reader, eyes glazed-but he joined in when everybody sang, "Good night, room; good night, light; good night, window." Nicky, a third-grader whose family had just arrived from Puerto Rico, grunted only a few words in class: "Yes," "No," "Thirsty"-but he flailed his arms along with the others in pantomime...
Different as we? To Frere Jacques, two actors trilled...