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Despite the ban on newspaper comment, however, there is already considerable private speculation in Brazil as to which of the dozen or so generals in the junta will be picked. The odds-on favorite right now seems to be General Ernesto Geisel, 64, who is head of the government-owned petroleum monopoly, Petrobrás. Geisel has one major advantage over other contenders: his brother Orlando is Minister of the Army and also a four-star general, which means they have eight stars between them. Geisel's business experience presumably would serve him well in guiding national economic policy...
MONDAY: How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) at his best, CH. 7, 8 p.m. Color...
Died. Helen Palmer Geisel, 69, wife of "Dr. Seuss" and mother to his zany literary menagerie of Grinches, Nerkles, and Star-Belly Sneetches; of undetermined causes; in La Jolla, Calif. As an American at Oxford in 1925, she urged her boy friend, Ted Geisel, to devote himself to his whimsical doodles. Geisel took her advice to heart, married her as well, and as Dr. Seuss, published 27 books...
...Massachusetts-born Geisel has a B.A. degree from Dartmouth and studied at Oxford University, but has had no art training since walking out on a high-school art teacher who refused to let him draw with his drawing board turned upside down. A cartoon of egg-nog-drinking turtles that he sold to Judge magazine in 1927 financed his marriage to fellow Oxford Student Helen Palmer, who helps him develop his story lines. His career got a big boost when his advertising cartoons for an insecticide made the caption "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" a common household quip...
...Geisel, who considers his work "logical insanity," gets a wry chuckle out of all the profound Ph.D. papers written about his books. He views himself -and most creative people-as those who "compensate for something-you wouldn't start building something new unless you were dissatisfied with what you've got." Perhaps, he adds with a smile, "we are all psychotic." Maybe so, but under the spell of Dr. Seuss, a cat that wears a hat and an elephant that sits in a tree somehow seem more normal than a Dick and Jane who chase a ball...