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...Donald Grey Barnhouse, the bustling pastor of Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church. It does not matter to him that these illustrious preachers are all dead or that some of their audiences may number no more than 15 people. The trick will be turned by a spool of plastic tape and a standard 110-volt light socket. To distribute what he calls Portable Church Services, Barnhouse has turned to the tape recorder...
...with puppets on strings waltzing around behind counter, basking in awed glances of little girls. Stuffed clowns sail by over head, hanging from stuffed oranges. Mechanical elephant nine feet high waves trunk in front of my face. Little man with red face tooting "Jingle Bells" on plastic fife...
Wandered into "New England's Largest Doll House." Doll behind counter was pouring orange juice down the mouth of one of the plastic dolls. "Then you just pull out this little pan and empty the doll, and she's ready for a refill." Made a hasty exit to the toy trains department...
...first big chance as a sculptor came in World War I, when he got the notion of modeling a "plastic history" of the times. Masaryk, Pershing, Foch, Clemenceau...
Sardines, Dimes, Cheese. After the war, Jo took off for Russia, hoping to fill out his plastic history with a bust of Lenin. He never got Lenin, but he got a host of influential underlings. When Foreign Minister Chicherin, who lived in great splendor, heard that Karl Radek, who lunched off sardines on newspaper,* was being sculpted, Chicherin remarked to Jo: "What a curious man, Radek. Why does he go on living in such squalor? . . . After all, there has been the revolution." "He is a curious man, Chicherin," confided Radek. "Look at the way he lives. You would never know...