Word: moppet
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...half-hour show takes its name and its animated M.C. from the 1950 Oscar-winning cartoon, Gerald McBoing-Boing, a moppet who cannot speak words but emits "boi-i-i-n-n-g-g-s" and other sound effects. Still mute except for an occasional train whistle, drum roll or dynamite blast, M.C. Gerald devotes six minutes of each program to showing a UPA (United Productions of America) film already seen in theaters, the rest to new material. This week little Gerald ran off UPA's version of Ludwig Bemelmans' picture tale, Madeline, putting his twelve little Parisian...
...Detroit grade schools last week, doctor-nurse teams set up shop behind desks in classrooms and readied their needles. At the Clarence M. Burton School, kindergartners wound in a tearful line to the shot-room door, each moppet clutching his school record and a yellow permission slip signed by a parent. Two doctors worked at assembly-line pace-one shot every 20 seconds. At four health centers, preschool infants were getting shots, and adults could have them for the asking. Dr. Molner's goal: 80,000 shots (80% of the children in the worst disease area) before the holidays...
...services at famed St. Stephen's Cathedral had to be moved into the crypt. The people of sunny Nice, all set to celebrate the city's annual carnival, opened their windows to find a blanket of snow covering streets and palm trees. In Rome at least one moppet, seeing Rome's first real snowfall in his lifetime (ten years), begged permission of his parents to go out and play in the farina (flour). Ice formed on the lagoon in Venice, and near Naples kids went skiing on Mount Vesuvius...
...goods. Across the land the signs of limitless bounty were evident. Prosperity's bright star twinkled over Chicago, where the Pullman Building will be replaced by a 20-story skyscraper tinted gold; the star blazed briefly on Davy Crockett, who rocketed overnight into a $100 million moppet madness, on Ford's newborn $10,000 Continental-and on cigar makers, who had their best year since 1929 as 10 million Americans contentedly puffed 6.1 billion cigars. As 1955 ended, the U.S. could look back and truthfully say, as did Seattle Banker Miner Baker: "Anybody who can't find...
Drouet's tales about Minou had failed to check with neighbors, teachers and the parish priest, and how she kept prompting the moppet in the interview. As for Minou, reported Elle, "She does not know the meaning of words used in her poems. Did she write them? If not, did her mother? And if her mother did, did she do it to sublimate her ambition and frustration, for love of glory or love of money...