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...Wow. Baird turns clay models of his puppets' heads over to his 13 artisans for casting in plastic; there may be four or more versions of the same character to show his various stages and moods. In action, the creatures are handled by the Bairds (Cora plays all the female parts) and their company of four men. Though a puppeteer may handle as many as four characters at a time (including dancing marionettes with 27 strings apiece), the art requires less finger dexterity than uncanny ability to project voice and body down from the overhead "bridge" onto the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bairds on the Wing | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...said that first item he wants to speak is about high school. High school which natives looked for all these years. Seaton said that they are going to have one already solved and in this school, they will have class rooms, kitchen rooms, utility room, and general shop room. Wow what a good news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Fred & the 49th | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...friends in Fairbanks one day last week after a treasured visit from Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, 49, in 30-below weather. A strong Republican campaigner, Seaton flew into Alaska to help the G.O.P. ticket in the first post-statehood election contests. Wherever he touched down, Fred Seaton wowed; and where he did not wow, he wooed. "I want so desperately for this great state to get off to the right start," said Campaigner Seaton to as many of Alaska's nearly 50,000 voters as he could reach by plane, automobile and dog sled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Fred & the 49th | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Kind Hearts & Coronas. McGowan was three years out of wartime sea duty when he was hired by the Churchills. Neither the Royal Navy nor the intense respectability of a good working-class family in Lancashire had prepared him for the oddities of the aristocracy. "Wow! Wow!" Mrs. Churchill would call from the hall at Chartwell, the Prime Minister's residence, as she arrived home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beloved Guv'nor | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...Wow! Wow!" Winston would answer. "Dear cat." he would say to his lady. "Dear pig." she would reply. Lest the reader get the wrong impression, Norman is careful to explain that his beloved "Guv'nor" only said that sort of thing because he was very fond of animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beloved Guv'nor | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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