Word: tussaud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predecessor in an out-of-the-way, abandoned brewery, which last year drew half a million visitors. For Frank L. Dennis, a former Washington newspaperman and lawyer, has spectacularly revived in this age of electronic entertainment the macabre gimmick with which, 163 years ago, spidery old Mme. Tussaud made a killing...
...rather, killings. In a world without television, Mme. Tussaud's waxworks supplied nightmare fodder to generations of Londoners, with its penumbral acres of dismemberments, garrotings, stabbings, shootings and dungeon doings. After visiting Mme. Tussaud's while on European assignment as a U.S. information officer, Dennis decided that a less gory and more educational waxworks might well be popular with tourists in the nation's capital. He was so right: in addition to the new museum, Dennis' Historic Figures Inc. has set up five smaller wax museums at Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, Niagara Falls, Denver, and Gatlinburg, Tenn...
DISCOVERY (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Repeat of the second part of a visit to London, including Westminster Abbey, Mme. Tussaud's, the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, and a chat with Leslie Caron...
...mate," cracked Ringo Starr. Neither twin was very tony. Still it was hard to tell them apart until someone asked if the real Beatles would please sit down. The ones with the wax between their ears didn't move, and fans at London's Madame Tussaud's were finally sure which was which. Louis Armstrong knocked the rag mops off the top of Variety's singles chart last week, and the whisper was that they had passed their peak. But if their graven images at the world's foremost wax museum were not proof enough...
...time for the great debate, there were only two empty seats in the jammed, expectant chamber. The first was filled, with four minutes to spare, by Harold Macmillan, who sat down stiffly on the government's front bench, looking as chill and wan as his effigy at Madame Tussaud...