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Scarfe's figures of the Beatles still repose in Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London. Aware that a similar long-lasting fate might await his Galbraith sculpture, TIME'S editors asked the professor if they could keep the jacket, which he had bought at Horton's of Dublin. Indeed they could, said the Scots-descended economist, "for one hundred dollars!" TIME sent a check posthaste...
Next their plans call for them to take to the road once more, this time to Madame Tussaud's famed waxworks museum as part of an exhibition of contemporary figures...
When she visited London in 1949 as quite a young girl, Piri Halasz looked at the bomb sites, went to Madame Tussaud's, the Tower of London, Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop, and a pub where she remembers having "a dreary serving of watery mashed potatoes and Brussels sprouts." Somehow that wasn't enough to discourage her. She remained a complete Anglophile, majored in English literature at Barnard, wrote her senior thesis on T. S. Eliot, and went back last year to find a better England. It was L'Etoile and Ad Lib and the trattorias...
...drama were taxidermy, Harry Secombe could scarcely be faulted. Perhaps Madame Tussaud's should put in a bid for him at the end of the run. His Mr. Pickwick is a no-neck John Bull with a jellybelly. He is full of music-hall antics that date, but not back to the 19th century. His fellow Pickwickians are animated period costumes equally devoid of personality...
...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...