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...heat foil pans; this year his Aunt Fanny's Baking Co. will sell $6,000,000 worth of sweet rolls. Cincinnati's Joseph McVicker, 35, who took a lump of wallpaper cleaner and made it into one of the nation's most popular toys, Play-Doh, is a millionaire. Recently he sold out his business and started a second career by entering the Harvard Divinity School...
...other large buyers. For Cincinnati's Joseph McVicker, 34, the payoff idea was to turn doughlike wallpaper cleaner into a nonsticky modeling compound for children. Although the toymakers told him it would never sell, he has built a $4,000,000-a-year business from his "Play-Doh." Says McVicker: "I guess I wasn't bright enough not to act: you have got to believe in your product so strongly that you can overcome the doubts of others...
Planned Success. Since then, in theory, all a landless Mexican peasant has to do to get a farm is petition the government. If his claim is legitimate, he can then colonize unsettled government lands, join a communal farm called an ejido (pronounced eh-hee-doh), or move onto nearby expropriated plots. Land on any private farm that exceeds the government-set acreage ceiling, running from 250 acres to 1,500 acres, according to improvements, is subject to expropriation without compensation. Since the revolution, governments have parceled out some 125 million acres to 2,700,000 families and established...
Although an early admirer of Wagner ("Richie Wagner did get away occasionally from doh, me, so," he wrote, "which was more than some others did"), Ives realized that he himself could not express what he wanted to say within the romantic tradition. Long before Schoenberg, Stravinsky and other modernists, he experimented with ragtime rhythms and dissonance. A practical man, he also recognized that there was no public for that kind of music, and he was far too inde pendent to try to change his style. Some time before he married his wife, Harmony, he decided that rather than "starve...
...Doh Pitts! Ab-Doh Pills...