Word: lisp
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After seven years' absence, The Perfect Fool was back on the air last week. This time Ed Wynn's giggle and lisp, his affectionate idiocy were selling milk (Borden) instead of gasoline (Texaco), as King Bubbles of Happy Island (Blue Network, Fri., 7 p.m., E.W.T.), where refugees from Worry Park ("Step Mournfully, Please") play make-believe. Though his new program is heavy-laden with Elsie the Cow, singers of both sexes and commercials which are part of the plot, Ed Wynn manages, as he has for 42 years of show business, to make the show entirely...
Susan Peters does a masterful job of making herself sweetly obnoxious as she chases Coleman. Her girlish lisp is aggravating, but don't let it spoil the picture for you. There are a number of scenes near the end in which the element of suspense is so capably, delicately handled that they more than compensate for an occasional bad scene...
Chicago Tax Shark. Star of the performance was Quiz Kid Kupperman of Chicago, a pale, sturdy, brown-eyed six-year-old who spoke somewhat juicily, thanks to a natural lisp and the recent shedding of three teeth. He had no trouble figuring the normal tax on $2,650 without pencil or paper. He also volunteered the belief that the United Nations were sure to win the war because he had so many friends and relatives...
...five he was taken to see Rimsky-Korsakov's Tsar Sultan. After one hearing he could and did sing long passages from the opera. Sometimes he would sit at the piano, strike a chord and lisp: "That's the stars." Sometimes he struck a treble note, said: "That's somebody looking out the window." At 13, he entered Leningrad Conservatory. At 19, he composed his First Symphony (one of the most popular) as part of his course...
...only hospital in the U.S. devoted exclusively to people who stutter, lisp, mumble, use baby talk, are tongue-tied or have cleft palates* is Manhattan's National Hospital for Speech Disorders. Last week the hospital, founded by Dr. James Sonnett Greene, celebrated its 25th anniversary, announced that it had treated a total of more than 38,000 children and adult patients (70% without payment), had helped most of them to normal speech...