Word: doll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billy Doux. In Tryon, N.C., 14-year-old Billy Rockman auctioned off his entire collection of love letters for a local Red Cross drive, got 27? for the hottest item, addressed to "Sugar Doll...
...first-grade play. Up to the theater door came skipping the prettiest little girl in the world-her golden hair in loving braids, her skin like pinks in a bowl of milk, her chin arriving at a charming little point, her eyes as wide and innocent as a china doll's. But the lobby was packed tight with squealing children and shushing mothers. How to get through? The wide eyes narrowed, the pointed chin shot forward, and daddy's darling charged. "Hey!" a five-year-old hollered as he pulled her elbow...
Holiday at Home. After seeing Mohammed off on Thanksgiving , morning (and presenting a "Miss America" doll from his daughter Patricia for Mohammed's daughter Amina). Nixon stopped briefly at the White House, then went home. Pat Nixon had roasted the 9-lb. turkey; Nixon's mother, Mrs. Hannah Nixon, had baked an apple pie; daughter "Tricia" had made paper nut holders shaped like Pilgrims' hats. Daughter Julie had worked all morning making place cards of yellow paper, taken from the work pads in her father's den, brightly colored with crayon. The Vice President...
...visually and musically the most striking of the new girl singers. Her audiovisual analogue would be a bass sax wrapped in a lace nightie. Using a vocabulary of oo's, ee's and ah's, she sings one entire side of her first LP (That Satin Doll; Atlantic) almost completely without words. This could sound like a cat trapped in a rain barrel, but somehow manages not to. In the best of her all-but-wordless songs (the composer, Phil Moore, calls the technique "Woman-as-an-Instrument"), Carol fogs out three minutes of lowdown vowels, then...
...even dolls have escaped the mechanical trend: F.A.O. Schwarz will attach a remote-control unit ($85) to any doll, allowing it to walk in any direction. But the most popular dolls are expected to be Ideal's modernized Shirley Temple doll ($12.50), which nostalgic young mothers will have to explain to their daughters, and Miss Revlon ($2.98), a doll that can be outfitted with costumes ranging from a $1 smock to a fancy $250 mink coat. The little homemaker will find the appurtenances of the wonderful world of dolls more realistic than ever: from France comes an nin. metal...