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...some 8,000 children, scarcely 900 are more than seven years old. In front of almost every house along Levittown's 100 miles of winding streets sits a tricycle or a baby carriage. In Levittown, all activity stops from 12 to 2 in the afternoon; that is nap time. Said one Levittowner last week, "Everyone is so young that sometimes it's hard to remember how to get along with older people...
...after a rubdown from the studio masseur, he takes a nap in a soundproofed chamber off his office. Awakened at 8, he dines at the studio, sometimes with Mrs. Zanuck or his French tutor (he has been studying French on the run ever since he was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1936), sometimes alone, staring grimly at a television set. At 9, he is looking at more rushes or rough-cut complete films. Then he gives instructions to cutters, producers and directors who join him in relays into the night. He sees everything that is put on film...
...Xavier Cugat, 50, called in the press in Boston, announced that he would marry his band's songstress, Abbe Lane, 18, if he ever gets a divorce from his second wife. Then he turned to his fiancee and said gently: "Go down to your mother and take a nap before the show. Rest...
...most days he retired to his room after lunch to nap and read. He shunned the nightly movies shown for the staff and went to bed early. He was doing more work than usual on vacations; last week he seemed content to spend the rest of his time dozing, enjoying the quiet, and recharging his energies for the spring's transcontinental political campaigning...
...worth that much it was Walsing Winning Trick of Edgerstoune. Mrs. Winant showed him three more times in England, where he won two best-in-shows, then took him home to the U.S. Last week, after catching an hour nap in a crate in Madison Square Garden's basement, 3½-year-old Trick perked up for the final of the Westminster Kennel Club. Most of his five rivals, survivors of more than 2,500 carefully sifted pooches, were considerably more formidable in size and mien. Finalist Judge George H. Hartman moved from the sleek pointer (best...