Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eerie? Absurd? Only for 30 seconds, until the record of uninterrupted laughter has run its course inside the bag the boys are swinging. Then, it is clearly only a joke, and already the hottest toy of the new year: Bag Full of Laughs...
...candy-striped. But when a concealed button is tapped, a battery-operated three-inch plastic disk turns on, and there is no turning off the heehaws for half a minute. "We sell happiness," says Sammy Kay, vice president of the Gund Manufacturing Co. and chief purveyor of the laughing bag, a brand of happiness that costs about $5. Gund has been putting laughing boxes inside stuffed animals since 1954, but it wasn't until this year that the company sent them out to go it alone. "Our first buyers," Kay reports, "were wary. But it's like making...
Competitors are willing to share the storm. The Louis Marx Co. has The Laugh Machine, at twice the size and with a laugh that sounds as if a child were being tickled and tickled. Then there is a "Bag of Laughs," a "Laughing Pouch," and for those who like their titters in hard covers, a "Box O Laffs." Legal battles may be forthcoming. The issue: whether laughter, packaged, is in the public domain...
Small wonder, then, that back in 1959 Jaime ("Robbie") Robertson, then a 16-year-old from Toronto, set off eagerly for points south, guitar in hand. "I was born to do it, man," Robertson recalls. "Born to pack my bag and be on my way down the Mississippi River. I was music-crazy, just a total music fanatic. I wanted to see all those places with those fantastic names. Chattanooga, Tenn.?wow! Shreveport, Lu-zee-ana ?wow! I just couldn't wait to drive down that road, you know. All that good music came from there?Robert Johnson...
...passengers for Trans World Airlines' flight 841 lined up to board their jet in Athens last week, an alert supervisor named Frixos Servetopoulos noticed that two men and a woman were carrying identical brown leather satchels. Feigning routine interest, Servetopoulos inspected one bag, then scurried to call the police. In short order, the three passengers were arrested. Inside their luggage was found an arsenal of pistols, hand grenades and bombs. The three were also carrying mimeographed statements announcing that the airliner was being skyjacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P...