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...this moppet Red River, it is the Duke's responsibility to nudge the boys to manhood. This involves him not only as a trail boss and referee but as a speech therapist. He cures one of the kids of a bad stutter by riling him until the boy can call Duke half a dozen kinds of a son of a bitch without a single stumble...
...delightfully improbable piece of casting, Raquel Welch is going to play that blank-eyed, block-bodied moppet of the comic strips, Little Orphan Annie, in a CBS-TV special called Funny Papers. Annie's superrich, superreactionary guardian, Daddy Warbucks, will be portrayed by Carroll O'Connor, the Archie Bunker of All in the Family. "We got into a little discussion about just how sexy Daddy Warbucks was," said Raquel. "We wondered how close he should get to Little Orphan Annie, and whether we should indicate that there might have been a little something going on between them...
...gimmick was so successful that last July Hunt-Wesson launched something called the National Children's Forest-a tree would be planted in one of three national forests in the name of every moppet who mailed in a label from any of nine of the company's most popular products. In three months the company received 173,000 requests, and the response shows no sign of flagging. Cost to Hunt-Wesson could reach...
Getting Smarter Sooner A moppet in kindergarten recites his ABCs, then confesses to his parents: "I learned it on Sesame Street, but my teacher thinks she taught me." It is not only young children who are ahead of themselves-or rather, ahead of the level where the traditional curriculum considers they should be. High school seniors also often find themselves bored to death, and even more bored when they discover that their freshman year in college repeats much of what they have already learned...
Back home, meanwhile, the parents of the missing children also go off the deep end. Pandemonium breaks out and the film suddenly turns into a satiric moppet's-eye view of adult life. A multilingual U.N.-cooperative group meets to solve the crisis-and babbles into Babel. A Committee to Encourage Optimism is formed, complete with clowns, dwarfs and dancing girls whooping it up convention style. Finally, the children come back for a brief visit and turn away from it all in lofty disdain, leaving their parents to founder in the generation gap forever...