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...cooperative household. How late may the girls stay out? A committee is appointed to hand down a ruling. How much time can be spent watching TV? Another committee decision. Mrs. Benson hands out work assignments according to ability: a few years back, one Benson tyke, too small for any other job, was given responsibility for keeping the soap dish clean. Like all good Mormons, the Bensons neither smoke nor drink alcohol. They take no coffee or tea, eat meat sparingly...
Worn to a frazzle with casting problems for his new circus picture, The Greatest Show on Earth, Director Cecil B. DeMille dutifully posed for a pressagent's picture with a "hopeful starlet" licking his hand. The starlet: "Little Tyke," a four-year-old vegetarian lioness, raised on Pablum, milk and corn flakes...
Time and again Panayiota traveled to the Shatis home, begging for the return of Blue Eyes in exchange for the dark boy. But Mrs. Shatis insisted Blue Eyes was hers-she wanted no part of the dark little tyke who looked like all the other children on Cyprus...
Nancy Walker, former lady taxi-driver, has come a long way from the tough little tyke of her earlier musicals. In "Along Fifth Avenue" a new revue now in its final week here, she shows considerable development and improvement in her clowning and has acquired finesse--or is it moderation--in her delivery that is going to make her the funniest woman on the American stage...
Nevertheless, in black markets all over the kingdom, butchers, farmers and restaurateurs were buying & selling horse meat of all ages for the table. "Tyke a big dray, naow," said a cockney slaughterer, "at 900 pahnd in skin and shoes, 'e'd only bring 40 pahnd when 'e was boned, but on the black market 'e brings near four bob a pahnd." Customers, aware and unaware, were eating heartily. "A nice bit o' minced 'orse, with plenty of carrots and onions," said a Doncaster housewife, "and I defy anyone to turn up 'is nose...