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Gone are the days when small chil dren played contentedly with featureless rag dolls. Today's vogue is for realism, and toymakers now turn out dolls that can walk, talk, cry and even wet. When Frank Caplan, general manager of Creative Playthings, Inc., spotted a French doll called Petit Frere at Nürnberg's doll fair last March, he jumped at the opportunity to buy up distribution rights for the U.S. Renamed "Little Brother," the doll has a sweet angelic face, is, in fact, modeled after a Verrocchio Renaissance cherub in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence...
...arrival set off a small furor. U.S. Customs, tipped off that an obscene doll was being imported, sent an inspector to investigate. He took one look and brushed the complaint aside. But more determined opposition was building up elsewhere. In Norwood, Ohio, Mrs. Stephen Wetzel, a mother of three, read about the doll in the newspapers, formed a committee that has since mailed off over a thousand letters of protest to Government officials, churches, clubs and department stores, branding the $19.95 doll an "obscene toy." Southern California is currently being blanketed by other protesters who believe that Little Brother will...
Wary of controversy, most of the 50 franchised department stores across the country are keeping Little Brother under wraps. Manhattan's Bloomingdale's doesn't stock the doll, will fill mail orders only. Denver's MayD & F and Cleveland's Higbee's have taken the doll off display, although so many customers have come in asking for it that both stores have had to reorder. With various pediatricians and child psychologists coming to the defense of Little Brother as a perfectly natural play doll "unless adult reaction makes it unnatural play," Creative Playthings...
...stone-grey East German city of Wittenberg, where Martin Luther posted his 95 theses, last week banners proclaiming SOCIALISM WILL CONQUER THE WHOLE WORLD overhung the main streets. At kiosks, vendors peddled a new kind of Kewpie doll - portly and dressed in the brown robes of an Augustinian monk. In one shop window, portraits of Luther and Lenin glared at each other across the open pages of an ancient Bible. Thus was the 450th anniversary of the Reformation celebrated in the midst of a "democratic socialist" republic...
...photographer (Ephrem Zimbalist Jr.) and his blind wife (Audrey Hepburn) become the unwitting owners of a dangerous dope-filled doll. Three thugs hoax the husband out of town and then try to coax the heroine into giving up the toy. With mounting anxiety she keeps insisting that she has no idea where it is. To break down her story, the crooks concoct a series of elaborate disguises, posing as old men, young men, policemen and friends...