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AMERICA'S JUNIOR MISS PAGEANT (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Fifty "ideal high school girls" vie for the title of 1908's Junior Miss...
...judging contests and senior proms, reptile-club snake exhibits and "petting zoos" (for animals tame enough for tots to touch). Porpoises sometimes frolic in the 80-ft. pool at the King of Prussia Plaza near Valley Forge, Pa., and esprit runs so high that clerks don antique costumes and vie for prizes at the annual summer "sidewalk" sale...
Freight pays more than passengers these days, and freight handling is the railroads' biggest business - a subject on which Davidson is a home expert. His family playroom in Manhasset, L.I., is monopolized by a vast and ever-expanding model-train layout, on which he and his children vie for time at the controls. "We have all freight cars - no passenger cars," he says proudly. "It's a very modern railroad...
...Zubin was packed off to the Vienna Academy, where $75 a month had to suffice for his teetotaling version of la vie de bohème; a nonsmoker as well as a nondrinker, he lapped up ice cream and orange juice in the cafes while other students had cigarettes and coffee or brandy. He tirelessly went to concerts, played bass in the academy orchestra ("I learned a lot about orchestra psychology"), and gravitated to the conducting classes of Hans Swarowsky. The revered teacher recognized in Mehta a "demoniac conductor" who "had it all." Nevertheless, he put Mehta through the usual...
...Regrets. The decor will be, in Mrs. Abell's word, "Christmasy." Holly and topiary trees flecked with "teeny white lights" will adorn the East Room. Seven attendants in gowns of Goya red will vie for the eye with the 32-member Marine Band's scarlet tunics. The groom, Marine Captain Charles Robb, 28, will wear his dress blues. He has had little say in the preparations. "Mostly, he's chief in charge of the honeymoon," Mrs. Abell explains...