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...today's youngsters, who have watched manned space ships blast off on TV and may never even have ridden in a train, the tracks are losing thier magic. Lionel, which has absorbed A.C. Gilbert's American Flyer this year stopped stopped making trains and is selling off its inventory. Sears Roebuck's current Christmas catalogue devotes tow pages to model trains-but it takes nine pages to describe slot-car racing sets, which provide an element of competition that the trains never had, and have replaced them as the Christmas present that boys want most...
Though it may have been absurd, there was nothing contemptible about the antiquarian passion that swept a good part of the British upper classes at the time, when architects like Sir George Gilbert Scott and A.W.N. Pugin were creating hundreds of Neo-Gothic churches and restorations throughout England, and Sir Charles Barry was faking the medieval Houses of Parliament. For a generous spirit like Morris, it was an easy step from saying that life once was beautiful to believing that it could and should be beautiful again...
...deliver the punchline faultlessly every time. Add to this the fact that any joke, no matter how hackneyed, quadruples in laugh-value the moment it is set to music, and you see why the opera Falstaff is as much funner than the play The Merry Wives of Windsor as Gilbert and Sullivan is funnier than Gilbert...
...KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Tony Randall stars as "Stagedoor Johnny" in a musical comedy set in the New York of the 1920s. Guest stars include Walter Winchell, Cab Calloway, Gilbert Becaucl, Nathaniel Frey, Michele Lee and Marilyn Maye...
Hasty Pudding; Krokodiloes, director; Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players; varsity soccer; HFGC; Information Gathering Service, assistant manager...