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...atomic submarine Nautilus in 1953 six months before General Dynamics Corp. Other bestsellers this year: the Bomarc antiaircraft missile (457,000 kits) and the Talos missile (443,000 kits sold since its October introduction). All are intended to be "tough but rewarding to builders from age six on up." Surprisingly, adults make up 40% of the kit market. Says Glaser: "We lose most boys at about age 15; they turn to other hobbies such as girls. But then they marry, and as soon as they have a six-year-old boy we get them back...
...Angeles last week, Mrs. Rhoda Borgnine got a divorce from Ermes Effron Borgnine on grounds of mental cruelty. The settlement gave Rhoda $2,000 a month alimony, the custody of their six-year-old daughter, a $53,000 insurance policy on her ex-husband's life and the house in Van Nuys. In court she testified that Ernie used to fly into rages, tossed furniture, locked himself in his room for 24 hours. Later she added to reporters: "He did not change much after he made Marty. Just a little more self-confident, maybe. The consensus is that...
Soprano Callas' exit looked to some operagoers like a retreat in her six-year-old war against Soprano Renata Tebaldi. Callas won the first battle in 1955, when her rival disappeared from La Scala; Tebaldi has not sung there since. But while Tebaldi began a brilliant new career at Manhattan's Met, her fans made things hot for Callas in Milan. When hissing Tebaldi rooters pelted Callas with radishes, Manager Antonio Ghiringhelli put up to 150 cops into La Scala, soothed Callas with public kisses and bales of flowers...
...weeks after a daring, touch-and-go operation to replace a diseased part of his aorta (TIME, Jan. 13), six-year-old David Fleming Jr. received the press at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, N.Y. Photographers got appealing shots, reporters got one quote: "I want to go home." Two days later David was out of bed for the first time, had better circulation than before the operation. Doctors expected to let him go home within a fortnight...
...five-year-old hollered as he pulled her elbow out of his ear. "Who do you think you are?" The little girl drew herself up. "I," she announced in a powerful voice, "am the leading lady!" The crowd fell back, an aisle was made, and down it the six-year-old diva swept grandly to her dressing room...