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Millions of five-year-olds went off to kindergarten last week, and millions of parents told them not to be afraid, it would be just like Romper Room. Children's television at its best, Romper Room is an educational play session seen every weekday by more than 5,000,000 presumed corrigibles, who in their own living rooms participate in the activities on the screen, whether it means marching around in a circle banging spoons on pan bottoms or solemnly pledging allegiance to the flag and-as one mother reported-to "one naked individual with liberty and justice...
...months, the pills lay in the medicine cabinet untouched. His wife Sherri became pregnant early in May. With four children ranging in age from 20 months to eight years, she is a busy housewife, and as Sherri Chessen, she is also the star of a daily 55-minute Romper Room program on Phoenix's KTAR-TV. To quiet her nerves and ensure sleep, Sherri Finkbine took some of the British pills-in the second month of her pregnancy, when the danger that the drug will damage the fetus is greatest. Only then did she learn that what...
...ROMPER ROOM-"At least it's harmless...
...television. The trio considered breaking up the act-until TV, that supposed wrecker of old-style comedians, turned out to be their salvation. The kiddy population roared at the antique routines. By last week the reruns were running ahead of such competition as Popeye and Mickey Mouse among the romper set, and the rejuvenated Three Stooges were swinging cross-country in a highly profitable nightclub and theater tour (last week Dearborn, Mich.; this week Chicago...
Curtis ("Buzzie" Dall) Roosevelt, 25, a Manhattan advertising executive, who first won fame as a romper on the lawn when Grandfather F.D.R. lived...