Word: rumpelstiltskin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousands of moppets glued to the phonograph. It has also kept radio's Hal Peary well stocked in golden eggs. As Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, the befuddled buffoon he portrays for NBC (Sun., 6:30-7 p.m., E.S.T.), he got $40,000 for recording Jack, Puss in Boots and Rumpelstiltskin in a four-record album for Capitol Records. ("I did it just for a lark," said he, "and didn't expect to make more than carfare money...
...Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, the Chicago Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Said Philippa: "I was in Mexico on a vacation trip with Mother, and I was so homesick for New York that I wrote it to express what I felt." The second-prize Rumpelstiltskin is from Philippa's almost-completed Fairy Tale Symphony...
...parents distracted and alarmed by the Shadow and Superman, few radio programs are as welcome as CBS's Let's Pretend. Adapting fairy tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Rumpelstiltskin, Let's Pretend is an unsponsored show. More popular with children than many of its murder & mayhem rivals, it attracts some 1,000 letters weekly...