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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week U.S. gallerygoers had their first chance in a decade to review Corot's prodigious output, in an exhibit of 32 paintings at Manhattan's Paul Rosenberg & Co. Their fresh verdict: Corot painted far better than even his contemporaries and immediate successors suspected. He had almost totally suppressed his best work, including early, architecturally conceived landscapes as well as later figure painting, while showing only the vaporous landscapes that the 19th century public crowded...
...poor little rich boy there are some gold-plated gadgets. Mystic River Sales has a junior fire engine, "The Firebird" ($500), that a child can drive at 5 m.p.h., operating a 1½-gallon pressure water tank that squirts water 25 ft. The Charles Wm. Doepke Mfg. Co. has an electric locomotive, "The Yardbird" ($225), that can transport a young engineer from room to room on an eight-inch gauge track. F.A.O. Schwarz has a wooden stockade ($75) with corner peephole boxes through which young pioneers can see the "attacking enemy...
...from the world of automation and guided missiles, are bound to dazzle adults as well as children. Among the startlers: "The Brain" ($11.95), a missile-shooting, robot-manned car with an electronic circuit built into the robot's head, put out by St. Louis' Jay V. Zimmerman Co., and remote-controlled buses and boats imported from Japan. "The Brain" can be preset to scoot about, turn and dodge on its preordered course, and fire its plastic missiles automatically. The buses and boats can be started, stopped and turned right or left by radio signals from more than...
...Louis Marx & Co.'s "Tricky Tommy-The Big Brain-Tractor" ($5) is battery-operated, has a driver who appears to shift gears when he bumps into an object, changes direction and keeps rolling...
...Ideal Toy Co.'s "Revlon Doll" ($11.95 to $25) is a fully-developed young siren (proportioned to 34-23-34) whose outfit includes nylon stockings, earrings, a bra. The doll is expected to be Ideal's biggest seller since the "Shirley Temple" doll of 20 years...