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...Detecto" from Manning Manufacturing Co. for junior G-men, with suggested tot teasers ("Do you like school?"), and little-white-lie ratings from "Could Be" to "Big Whopper." Price...
...rest" bell, worked happily, rarely disturbed one another, automatically tidied up after each task. To learn the continents, three-year-olds used special jigsaw puzzles. To strengthen muscles for early writing, they traced complex metal plates that also introduced formal geometrical shapes. To practice the alphabet, one tot used big cards with the letters pasted on in sandpaper that he could feel. Four-year-olds used cut-out letters to spell the names of animals in pictures; many wrote the names, and several five-year-olds sat quietly reading books to themselves...
...baby in question is 'Chang, named after Po Chang, the great Zen master who said, "When you are tired, sleep." David Wincham, bearded and sandaled eldest son of Sir Alfred and Lady Wincham, has picked up the stray Chinese tot, along with a dumb blonde wife and the lingo of Zen. According to the head psychiatrist at NATO, David is suffering from a "Pull to the East" that has carried him across the Channel and as far as the British embassy in Paris, where his father is serving as ambassador in the early...
Over her corpse, her husband Mike, a cop turned lawyer, writhed in a manner to make Orson Welles's Macbeth or Olivier's Heathcliffe seem studies in understatement. Only a few days before, it had been revealed that little Laurie Ann. the Karrs' tot, was suffering from a hitherto unknown disease called paranucleosis, and couid be snatched from death only by miracle brain surgery. Alas, the master surgeon had hung up his trephining kit; his nerves had been shattered since his own daughter died under his scalpel...
When Mobilist Alexander Calder was only a tot 60 years ago, he would solemnly announce to those he had just met: "I am the third Alexander Calder living and the ninth dead...