The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-26
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Rv PAUL HARRISON

New York.-Time never hangs heavily on the bands of Fred " Jeusen. He runs the oldest cloch l and watch shop In town, and also | is probably New York's foremost radgeteer. Give him a handful of cog wheels and a beer keg ana he'll make you a clock that plays ssHappy Days Are Here Again" while a puppet bartender draws stein of dark.
 Jensen's little shop, across from the docks on West street, always has a knot of people in front of it trying to figure out how his various ssperpetual motion" clocks work. Jensen admits he winds them, but challenges you to ind out where. Inside the place art hundreds of big and little time pieces; so many. in fact, that Jen- sen keeps his hat and umbrella in a grandfather's clock. Several museums, among them Henry Ford's, have hinted at taking over his priceless collection. Jensen scorns such offers, though. Says his shop is better than a museum because everything in the place IS in actual operation.
 | oGdlQG6s tnC tACAk1S eAh0 sSSn- ing are the friendliest sounds he knows--those and the delighted exclamations of people who ven- ture in to watch the wheels go round. Jensen is spry and kind ly little gnome who'd rather show | off his contraptions and tell about their histories than sell a new watch. Gle won't sell any of the old ones.) His father, who died | in 1920 at the age of SS, started the shop more than 50 years ago. Now Jensen's son and 21-year-old grandson are in the business with him.
 One of his special brides is a l 200-year-old grandfather's clock from Copenhagen. Aged Danish people come in now and then tc hear it play, on mellow wooden pipes, some almost forgotten folk tunes. Also there are clocks with wooden gears. only an hour han1 run by weights moldeds of clay. One was made in the sixteenth century. More modern clocks. made by the master craftsmen of a mere hundred years ago, feature charming little animated tableaus on or about their faces.
 Cangplank Jottings
 Meanderings: Yehudi Menuhin sailing for Paris: shepherding his sisterS-Hephzidah and Yalta- and his parents aboard; halting to explain happily that after one con- cert appearance he'll rest and study for the next five months. No
 longer Little Yehudi. the child violin prodigy" he's "Mr Menuhin" now-16 years old and strapping. He knows five languages by this time, and says he'll soon enter an American college Other voy- agers-the Franklin l.. Hutons, also Paris-bound. and to see their daughter Barbara married to with them 40 pieces of luggage (27 of them trunks) and two maids and a valet
 l Harry Woods, the composer of song hits, sometimes takes his mother around to night clubs [. So does Milton Berle, the comic |. And the other night at the
 Bal Musette, dark-eyed little woman at a ring g-side table turned out to be the mother of Leonard Keller, master of ceremonies. Just come from Chicago. she'd never been in such place before. And didn't think it was much of a business for her boy, who at 2f has been graduated from the Uni versity of Wisconsin, won a Juilli- ard Foundation scholarship as a violinist, and composed successful symphonic music. Keller is a Ger man, but majored in languages at college; so now. dressed as an apache, he can keep things nov ing at French night clubI