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...closetful of computers, Bob Hope blinks in dismay at his new assignment: the care and feeding of a blonde baby girl, abandoned in the U.N. lobby. "You've got the wrong man," burbles Bob. "I didn't even go to the Christmas party." Nevertheless he takes the tyke home to his bachelor flat, powders her with confectioners' sugar, fastens her diapers with Scotch tape, and warms her milk in an empty fifth. Meanwhile, back at U Thant's East River headquarters, an international incident begins to boil. Seems all 111 member nations want to claim...
...just sort of standing around when all of a sudden this producer comes running up and says, "I've auditioned 500 kids, and you're the perfect one. Sing something." Well, that's just how it happened to Sheri Bond, 7, a brunette, button-eyed tyke. She was at a special screening of a movie in Manhattan with her dancer mother when an assistant director of Meredith Willson's upcoming Here's Love, the stage version of Miracle on 34th Street, spotted her and knew she was just the one. Of course, she didn...
...Little Ingo," they call him, while Proud Father and former Heavyweight Champ Ingemar Johansson, 30, says of his three-week-old son: "The finest boy I ever saw. Look at his fists; he sure got them from me." Will the tyke go into the ring? "I wouldn't try to stop him." declared Ingemar in Stockholm. Of course, he would have to be christened first, on Easter Sunday, but Jens Patrik Johansson already looked like a comer...
...their annual gross. New York City stores reckoned it at 30%. Said a Salt Lake City jeweler: "If somebody abolished Christmas, I'd go out of business." All told, the nation's merchants will have rung up better than $5 billion in sales before the last tyke has crawled, all goose flesh, into bed on Christmas...
...anything legally staged in the U.S., more intimate and lively than Paris' Lido. Audiences sit in respectful silence as side-stage pianos strike Westminster-sized chords, lights evanesce, and wardrobes migrate to the floor (seldom, even in the lower-class establishments, is the air besmirched with pleas to "tyke it awff...