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...their own children; second, to reach other parents and pass the knowledge along. Mrs. Davidson showed how well she had learned when Patty began to walk at 16 months (many blind babies still crawl at 24 months). She learned to teach Patty to feed herself. "You stand behind the youngster," she explains, "and ease her into a regular rhythm-dip, slide, and in the mouth; dip, slide, and in the mouth." Last summer Mrs. Davidson got Patty, 2½, accepted in a nursery school with normal children...
...achieve in a lifetime. He has won top prizes in national and international exhibitions, displayed work in Paris, Cairo, New York and Honolulu. He has been the subject of a documentary film. He has launched his own art movement. At his first Rome show last week, the dark-eyed youngster shyly received the personal congratulations of a group of distinguished Romans, including Writers Carlo Levi and Alberto Moravia, Sculptor Pericle Fazzini and Painter Afro Basaldella...
...best youngster programs in Manhattan last week was a puppet show set to music. Austria's famed Salzburg Marionette Theater gave three matinees in one day (starting at 10:30 a.m.) for successive audiences of delighted small fry. With a few changes in the bill, it proved that it could also fill Town Hall with grownups in the evening. As befitted a troupe from his old home town, the Salzburgers did much of their work to music by Mozart...
Hollywood noted with passing interest a sharp example of the vagaries of fame & fortune. Thirty-one years ago Jackie Coogan, a big-eyed youngster in a floppy cap, shot to stardom in Charlie Chaplin's first feature-length picture, The Kid. Last week, bald, broke and all but forgotten, Coogan, 37, took what he could get in the way of a film job: a cowboy character part in a grade B western. Chaplin, now rich, white-haired, often mated (to four wives) and much berated (for his pinko leanings), announced that he had played the part of the Tramp...
...moonfaced youngster marched onstage in Carnegie Hall with the self-assurance of a veteran. He gave the audience a confident smile, then signaled Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos to launch the New York Philharmonic-Symphony into the Paganini Concerto No. 1. From his first bow strokes, 15-year-old Michael Rabin proved he had something to be confident about. His technique was effortless, his tone strong and clean, his style and phrasing in the brilliant manner of Heifetz and Isaac Stern...