Word: children
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the past half century the Bullard family has endowed several departments and institutions of the University, especially the Medical School. There is a Bullard Professorship of Neuropathology at the Medical School, which was established by Louisa Norton Bullard and her children in memory of her husband, William Story Bullard, a Boston merchant prominent in the East India trade...
Space-toy sales this year are sparked by new touches of realism. Explains Remco Industries President Saul Robbins: "Instead of the old Buck Rogers fantasy of flapping from one planet to another with a vaporizing gun, we're emphasizing land-based space. Children have to have something they can understand. Outer space is too futuresque for them." To duplicate the thrill of a rocket launching, Louis Marx & Co., world's largest toymaker, is offering a Cape Canaveral Missile Base set (list price: $7.98), with a phonograph record of actual launching countdowns. Ideal's Electronic Fighter Jet (list...
...Porter Chemical Co.'s Biocraft Biology lab (list price: $20), which includes a frog, a perch, and a crayfish pickled in formaldehyde, and the Fleet Manufacturing Co.'s Chick-U-Bator, a two-egg plastic incubator. Other eye-catchers: Margarete Steiffs stuffed frogs, starfish and turtles for children's TV seats; Boombass Co.'s one-man band mounted on a bouncing stick (list price...
...runs away from home, and to get money steals a typewriter from his father's office. He tries to sell it, finds he cannot, and is caught when he returns the machine. Horrified, his father takes him to the police station "to teach him a lesson." The children's court sends him to an "observation center" in the country, where young offenders are literally knocked into shape. His mother visits him only to tell him that he can never come back home. "Your father . . . has lost his job because of you . . . and is completely disinterested in your fate...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). A seasonal variety program stars Walter Slezak in Ludwig Bemelmans' The Borrowed Christmas; Judith Anderson narrates the Nativity passages from St. Matthew and St. Luke; Dick Button skates; Germany's Obernkirchen Children's Choir sings Christmas carols.Color...