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...vast new market. Power-lawnmower sales, for example, shot from 42,000 (worth $5,000,000) in 1940 to 1,275,000 (worth $144.5 million) last year. Home-freezer sales zoomed from 210,000 (worth $80 million) to 1,200,000 (worth $480 million) in just seven years. Papa, puttering around in the basement, spent $150 million on power tools in 1953, and a grand total of nearly $3 billion for all his home carpentry work. Many big department stores are already taking advantage of suburbia's cash and energy, stock hundreds of items in suburban branches that would...
Pianist Serkin was born in the Bohemian city of Eger. His father was a singer, so there was a piano in the house; young Rudi knew how to read music by the time he was four, made a public appearance at twelve. But papa Serkin discouraged a prodigy's career, and it was not until Rudi was 17 that he began touring as a member of Violinist Adolf Busch's ensemble. He made his U.S. debut in 1933, returned with his wife (Busch's daughter Irene) when the war began, and became a U.S. citizen...
...staff of office. A vast, burly man-he stands six feet and his chest measures 44 in.-Magloire carries off his formal appearances with unerring dignity. When on parade he is being what he knows many lowly Haitians want in a President: a father-king, a national bon papa of regal mien. Loving it, they sing...
...Steel Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Papa Is All, with Walter Slezak, Jessie Royce Landis...
...last week, confounding European sociologists and U.S. songwriters, Oh! My Papa was one of the hottest sellers in the record stores; Victor had shipped close to 1,000,000 copies in six weeks...