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...ever, Frank Costello, 71, learned that the U.S. has every intention of giving him the boot-right back to his native Cosenza on Italy's instep. The gangland chieftain was stripped of his citizenship in 1959 after a U.S. district judge ruled that the onetime rumrunner and kewpie-doll salesman had been naturalized fraudulently in 1925. Now the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan has turned down his attempt to upset a deportation order. Rasped Costello: "Italy is O.K. to visit but not to live in too long...
...CHIEF OF PROTOCOL, welcoming Somali's Prime Minister Abdirascid Ali Scermarche, who arrived on a visit and brought a few unusual gifts-an ostrich-egg lamp, a foot-high, bottom-weighted "Devil Doll'' that teeters but never falls over, a monkey-fur rug, and a brass gong mounted between two elephant tusks...
Once upon a time there was only one Santa Claus, and all the toys in the world came from his workshop at the North Pole. Every Christmas he would climb down the chimney and leave funny, old-timey toys like Raggedy Ann dolls, Lincoln Logs and Monopoly sets under the Christmas tree. And the funniest thing about it was that toys from one Christmas would still be around next year. How could anybody break a steel steam shovel, or abandon a doll which could actually say "Ma-ma" and shut her eyes when she lay down...
Machine clunking and whirring through a million U.S. living rooms last year. He also gave the world the Kissy Doll and the Robot Commando. Most Glass toys embody several principles: 1) they are big (so that they "participate with a child"); 2) they are made of plastic, with all of plastic's built-in obsolescence; 3) they are eminently TV-promotable...
...last (or latest) word in talking dolls is Little Miss Echo. Hidden in her tiny tummy is a battery-powered tape recorder. Turn the locket on her bodice one way and Little Miss Echo soaks up anything said in her presence; flip the locket the other way and she sounds off with 25 seconds of back talk. Little girls owning this transistorized Trilby will have a tough time keeping her away from Mommy and Daddy's cocktail parties. American Doll...