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...bite (from "Inky Smudge": Judge, to "Noah's Ark": Park); his pageant of animals educates almost as much as it amuses. Perhaps the most diverting beast of the season is the dragon of Magic in the Mist (Atheneum; $4.95). Margaret Mary Kimmel's happy reptile-illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman-is the best igniter since the match...
Typical of the family in transition are the Robert Mitchums. Movie Actor Mitchum still keeps a ranch full of quarter horses, saddles them up Western style, as do Ronald Reagan and, on occasion, Bob Hope. But Mitchum's daughter Trina will have none of this riding-the-range bit; she's gone off and bought her own hunter, which she rides and shows English style. Nor is she alone: until five years ago at Valley Farm Stables riding was predominantly Western and casual; now, suddenly, 70% are using English saddles...
...dark blue glass (see color). By the 16th century, turning from enamel, glass blowers were getting their effect from glass alone, embedding canes of opaque white glass to form latticelike patterns, or trapping pockets of air between the rods of glass to make Venice's famed vetro di trina (lace glass...
...family has a flourishing bank account. Domestic fireworks are provided by hard-drinking, softhearted Uncle Chris (Oscar Homolka); domestic dissonances by Mama's prying married sisters. The adolescent Katrin composes excruciating short stories about artists who go blind; baby sister Dagmar pines for a menagerie; demure Aunt Trina becomes the tremulous bride of a timid undertaker's assistant...