Thank you All
John, turquoisedude and PhilR are here and last nite we sat around eating dark chocolate and doing a load so we did a close observation and found that it does have a cool down cycle! After the first set point the burners shut off but the machine is soooo hot by then that it seems it wouldn't cool down but when we drew the towels out at the end they were "nicely warm" not scorching hot.
Nothing like what a GE dryer of that era was like.