Word: tot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eavesdropping." Charles's mother would pack him and his younger brother John, now 28 and an instructor in American civilization at Brandeis University, off to bed. But Charlie never stood in awe of the guests. "They were like a bunch of uncles to him," says Fadiman. As a tot, Charlie played with Philosopher Adler at a highbrow game of "neologizing" (inventing words in sentences to sound like a foreign language). As a youth, he played word games with Cornwall Neighbor James Thurber, who was so taken with Van Doren's acting skill ten years ago as the lead...
...Records! Records!" yells the six-year-old with a gleeful face, dragging his mother toward the rack of colored "envelopes in the supermarket. Mother escapes to the grocery department, leaving her son to make his choice. She is barely out of sight when the tot spots a picture of a locomotive on one of the jackets and shrieks. "Ma! Ma! I'm ready!" She returns and exasperatedly says: "You've already got a choo-choo record." Then she scans the rack, and a nostalgic smile crosses her face as she picks up Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
...Manhattan, with Ringling Bros, circus going on without him just across the street, famed Clown Emmett Kelly, 57, involuntarily played hooky, spent his time entertaining only one kiddy, his own Stasia, a nve-month-old big-top tot. It was the first opening Kelly had missed in his 14 years with the circus. Reason: the American Guild of Variety Artists, wrangling with Ringling Bros, over a welfare fund for circus performers, ordered Guildman Kelly to stay away...
...here. We don't want Red murderers in this country!" But Georgy, if he could understand its message, paid it no mind. Still smiling broadly when he pulled up at the Russian embassy in London's "Millionaire's Row," he chucked the chin of one embassy tot who was waiting in the driveway to greet him, patted the head of another, aimed a last wave and grin at the cameras, and disappeared inside...
...feeder lines and a few shaky trunk lines need a direct Government handout. Though they still earn heavy mail pay, all nine of the biggest carriers (American, Eastern, United, T.W.A., National, Northwest, Capital. Delta, Western) are self-supporting on their domestic runs. Overall estimates are that the industry will tot up a net operating profit of at least $150 million in 1955 v. $99.5 million last year. As a result, federal subsidies have dropped from $73 million in fiscal 1954 to an estimated $52.5 million in fiscal...