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    Page 4B/ r The Battalion/Wednesday, May 25, 1988
Dressed for success Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
Second Platoon Sargeant Adam Coe, a junior from San Antonio man general studies major Brandon Davis of San Antonio. Both are
studying environmental design, inspects the uniform fitting of fresh- members of Company K-2.
Family’s collection of Disney items
expands to slowly take over home
RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — Willie and Tobie
Hislope’s obsessive hobby is slowly taking over
their home.
The Hislopes said they started collecting Dis
ney characters for their son Will when he was
born three years ago.
Since then, the collection has grown to more
than a thousand pieces.
“We never really knew we’d get that involved
with it,” Hislope said.
“Now, everywhere I go that’s the first thing I
look for,” he said.
The collection includes banks, small figures,
matchbox cars, games, cameras, socks, lamps,
rattles, bubble pipes and also a menagerie of
stuffed animals.
The couple said they display most of the col
lection in their son’s room, but they have already
had to move the boy to bigger quarters. Even so,
there is still not enough space to display« every
thing.
“We built shelves all^the way around his bed
room and covered them,” Mrs. Hislope said.
“And we’ve got a china cabinet full of it,” her
husband added.
Hislope said they look for the Disney items ev
erywhere, from yard sales to antique malls.
His wife added that lots of people collect Dis
ney items.
“We’re not really serious about it, but it’s one
of the main things you look for when you go any
where,” Hislope said.
“We didn’t go out and spend hundreds of dol
lars on stuff,” he said.
Mrs. Hislope said the most expensive item they
purchased was the Mickey Mouse 60th birthday
plate they bought on their recent trip to Disney
World.
The plate cost about $35.
They know that while many of the items in
iheir collection are only worth what they paid for
them, the collection’s value will increase with
time.
“By the time he’s older and has kids, it will
really be worth something,” Mrs. Hislope said.
‘It’s kind of a fun thing we started to do that one
day may be worth something to him.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 20th
season of PBS’ “Sesame Street,” be
ginning this November, will lead up
to the birth of a baby for Maria and
Luis, two of the characters who mar
ried last season.
This season will also mark the
20th anniversary of two of the
show’s charter cast members —
singer-actor Bob McGrath and Car-
oil Spinney, the man inside Big Bird.
They recalled their beginnings on
the now historic PBS children’s se
ries at a recent news conference.
“When I first heard about it, I
didn’t think 1 wanted to be involved
with a new children’s show, because
there was nothing that exciting in
terms of children’s shows at that
point,” said McGrath, who had been
featured on the Mitch Miller show
and joined “Sesame Street” in 1969.
“But when I saw some of the film
and animation that Jim Henson and
some of the other people had done,
I knew this was really something
quite out of the ordinary from what
had been on television before.”
The producers of the show expect
to add new graphics and use more
films, including ones by director
Jonathan Demme and photogra
pher-artist William Wegman, this
season, a likely response to the trend
toward multimedia kids’ shows like
“Pee-wee’s Playhouse.”
One of the major episodes last
season was the wedding of charac
ters Luis and Maria. This season’s fi
nale will be the birth of their baby.
The producers hope to see the baby
grow up on the show. Producer-di-
rector I.isa Simon said a search is on
for expectant parents who would be
willing to let the show follow their
child’s growth.
Big Bird has become the show’s
biggest star, but he didn’t start out
that way, Spinney said.
A peripheral character in the
early episodes, he was sort of “the
village idiot,” Spinney said.
“One day, I realized he was really
a child,” said Spinney. “One of the
scripts said he had to go to day care
or something. So I said, we really
should play him as a child.”
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