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...confusion was certainly pleasing to Russia; Persia's series of helpless, do-nothing governments permitted Russia to pose as the hope of Persia's wretched twelve million. When they occupied Azerbaijan during and after World War II, the Russians made a fine show of constructiveness. Their puppet government paved some streets in Tabriz, opened a radio station, started land reforms...
Howdy Doody, NBC's popular cowboy puppet (TIME, April 5), had his huge audience of kids worried. Howdy had disappeared...
...month ago, when NBC refused to give him a raise, Frank Paris, Howdy's builder and manipulator, huffed out of the studio with Puppet Howdy under his arm. For awhile, the program's fate dangled by a marionette string. But M.C. Bob Smith still owned Howdy's name and voice, and NBC still had Smith. So, while a West Coast puppetmaker hurriedly whittled a new $2,000 marionette, harried Announcer Smith fenced with his young audience and concocted desperate excuses for the puppet's absence: Howdy was invisible, he was on a "presidential campaign tour...
...divided Korea social reforms would not be the new government's biggest or most immediate problem. A bigger problem was division itself. In North Korea, Soviet occupation had created a puppet Communist government with an army of more than 100,000 equipped with Soviet guns, vehicles and even a few aircraft. Communist Puppet Dictator Kim Il Sung could use those forces to "unify" Korea whenever occupation troops withdrew...
...asked for the chance to work with Turnabout, which had just started. Its name means what it says: it's two theaters in one. At one end of the hall a puppet show is staged; when it ends, the revue begins at the other. The audienca sits on slipcovered streetcar seats, reverses them between shows; front seats for the puppet show are back seats for the revue (a nearsighted person has to sit in the center, or decide which he would rather see well, Elsa or the puppets...