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...speech, written down in this way because I find it convenient, and those who speak it may also occasionally find it helpful." Mry Fry's glittering poetry is fun to listen to. Ignore the meaning, and watch it soar and spin about the page or stage, like a toy airplane would too tight that swirls crazily, bumps into a chair (laughter), backs up a bit, and takes off again...
Most students pack away their toy trains and stop thinking about them a long time before they come here, but White and many fellow railroad enthusiasts remember their early love and cherish it as a full time hobby...
...Tokyo's Ueno Zoo by India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (TIME, Oct. 17). Tokyo's Master Toymaker Jiro Aidawa had promised to make them something free of charge. Last week he displayed his handiwork to the delighted youngsters. It was an animal band. A toy monkey waved a baton, a bear scraped on a fiddle, a giraffe shook a tambourine, an elephant pounded a drum. The tune they would play for Nehru's ear was strictly made in the U.S.A. It was Oh! Susanna...
...shepherd won the crowd, but Judge Hartman, ignoring the applause as though he were stone deaf, went on with his work. The highly barbered black standard poodle (nonsporting group), the feather-light toy white poodle (toy group) and the Scotty (king of the terriers) got their inspections. Then each of the six finalists was gaited for the judge...
Died. Jay Witmark, 77, co-founder with older brothers Isidore and Julius of the Manhattan music publishing firm M. Witmark & Sons; in Manhattan. The three boys, 11 to 14, began printing business cards in 1883 with a toy press that Jay had won in school as a mathematics prize, published their first song in 1886. By 1928, when they sold out to Warner Brothers, they had published 24 Victor Herbert operettas, such raging hits as My Wild Irish Rose and Sweet Adeline...