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...SEUSS'S "HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS" (CBS, 7-7:30 p.m.). Boris Karloff narrates the children's story about the parsimonious, crotchety Grinch who tried to steal Christmas. Repeat...
...GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (CBS, 7-7:30 p.m.). Boris Karloff does the talking in an animated special based on Dr. Seuss's fable of the wicked Grinch and his attempt to keep Christmas from the residents of Whoville. Repeat...
Died. Helen Palmer Geisel, 69, wife of "Dr. Seuss" and mother to his zany literary menagerie of Grinches, Nerkles, and Star-Belly Sneetches; of undetermined causes; in La Jolla, Calif. As an American at Oxford in 1925, she urged her boy friend, Ted Geisel, to devote himself to his whimsical doodles. Geisel took her advice to heart, married her as well, and as Dr. Seuss, published 27 books...
Points Against Prejudice. While Dr. Seuss's young readers laugh, they also learn the value of patience from Horton, who sits on a bird's egg in a tree for eleven trying months, gets his reward when he hatches an elephant-bird. Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose is a model of kindness who lets animals ride on his horns because "a host, above all, must be nice to his guests." Geisel wrote about "star-bellied Sneetches," who thought they were better than "plain-bellied Sneetches," to score points against prejudice. He does not mind being called "the greatest...
...views himself -and most creative people-as those who "compensate for something-you wouldn't start building something new unless you were dissatisfied with what you've got." Perhaps, he adds with a smile, "we are all psychotic." Maybe so, but under the spell of Dr. Seuss, a cat that wears a hat and an elephant that sits in a tree somehow seem more normal than a Dick and Jane who chase a ball...