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Between them, the stores have so many Santa Clauses in the field that no toddler could fall for the gag any more. Suspicions are bound to be aroused especially when photographers begin popping off flash bulbs while the youngsters are confiding in the big man, CENTER BELOW. The pictures are distributed to the subjects as a reminder tof their visit--at a price. St. Nick wouldn't have wanted it that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mobs Prowl Shops in Push To Ring Christmas Welkin | 12/22/1951 | See Source »

...interview with a toddler is necessarily quite summary, but there are many ways to make it more personal. If Spang or I overhear a mother saying, "Here's Santa now, Maureen," we will usually greet the girl with a joyous, "Oh, I remember you! You're Maureen" There are many other ruses. If a boy has a shirt labelled "Steve," it is safe to assume that that is his name; if a girl wears a Girl Scout beret, we can confidently ask her how she's doing in the troop. If she carries a new pocketbook, we say, "Oh, what...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...part of an omnibus film like Quartet. Governess Wyman, a widow who has lost her own baby, gently parries Widower Laughton's attentions and loses him willingly to his designing secretary (Vivian Vance), who thereupon cuts her adrift from the household and from the little toddler she has grown to love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pratfalls & Tears | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

Rawhide (20th Century-Fox). Four badmen, escaped from jail, seize an isolated stagecoach station and wait for the big gold shipment to come through. They kill the stationmaster, grab his assistant (Tyrone Power) as a foil, and hold a stranded traveler (Susan Hayward) and a toddler as hostages in the belief that they are Power's wife & child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 19, 1951 | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

...little awkwardly, the Chinese people took another step toward popular government. They elected the 768-member Legislative Yuan, which will be China's (heavily Kuomintang) Parliament. It was still a toddler's step, but somewhat more assured than last November's National Assembly* elections. For one thing, the Chinese showed a growing feeling for machine politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sweet & Sour | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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