Word: rumpelstiltskin
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...letters a week written by Let's Pretend fans. In some families, three generations listen to the familiar, often-repeated stories enacted by Nila's casts,' largely juvenile. Cinderella, the favorite, has been given 22 times in as many years. Runners-up are Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Jack and the Beanstalk, Beauty and the Beast and what Nila persists in calling-in near-blasphemous defiance of Walt Disney and the brothers Grimm-Snowdrop and the Seven Dwarfs...
...Like Rumpelstiltskin, who stamped his foot into the ground and tore himself in two, the Administration last week was ripping itself up the middle. It split over the question of whether Congress should pass a new Fair Trade law permitting manufacturers to force all retailers to observe their minimum prices. Both the Department of Justice's trustbusters and the Federal Trade Commission are dead set against Fair Trade. They call it a price-fixing device which would reduce competition and probably raise many prices. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer...
...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...