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...wherever it is seen it achieves a local flavor impossible on a network. In each Romper Room city, the teacher has half a dozen local five-year-olds on the air with her every day, replacing three each week. They learn the alphabet, balance baskets on their heads, shove sand around with toy bulldozers, flack for their own drawings, and learn key facts of nature, such as, say, a whale can get a sunburn and peel. It is a school, not vaudeville, to be sure, but it is a pretty good show nonetheless. Teachers crawl under tables to convince reticent...
...doctors relaxed when the kidney graft took. But they became understandably tense in January of 1958, when Edith Helm arrived from Sand Springs, Okla., about seven months pregnant. On March 10 she had a normal baby boy by caesarean. Little more than two years later she had a girl, also by caesarean, in Gushing, Okla. Meanwhile, Sister Wanda had had three normal pregnancies and deliveries...
...clay, the other is bronze. Twenty years ago, after growing up in the tough world of Montana sheepherders, Voulkos got a job making castings in a Portland iron foundry. Artisanship led to art. At first he tried painting but found the materials too thin: he thickened his paint with sand, gradually moved to clay and worked searchingly until he discovered all its possibilities. Monumentality gripped him from the beginning. "I had lots of stuff fall down on me," he says. "I'd be up on a ladder and working, and all of a sudden...
...hand will be a team of nine Americans, eight Englishmen, 50 Frenchmen and one Spaniard. Some will do the acting; others will handle the cameras as they sweep across the endless strips of white sand and incredibly blue bays. But the producer of Harry's Girls, Bill Friedberg, is less interested in the terrain than in the kind of girls he wants for Harry - the mostly bikinied, unemployed actresses and models who are found in abundance on the beaches of Cannes, Juan-les-Pins and Monte Carlo. They should make most viewers forget about Harry...
...Sand Pebbles, McKenna...