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...three hours rescue crews worked under searchlights to retrieve the dead. The dawn illuminated a tragic scene: the ground strewn with children's things-a boy's pair of skis, a doll, party dresses for a little girl. The C-54 carried 23 men, seven women, nine children. Three Army families, bound home from Alaska, were completely wiped out. Of the 39 passengers and crewmen on board, 36 were dead; a soldier died later of burns. It was the ninth crash of military aircraft during three weeks in the North Pacific area. The death toll...
Chicago's Clinton Specialty Works has a toy electric vacuum cleaner that gathers dust ($12.95). One doll has hair that "grows" by means of a winding device hidden in the head; another, "Joan Pa-looka" from the comic strip, is permanently scented, comes with baby powder and soap ($7). A new method of rooting hair in the scalp makes many dolls safe against countless hair-brushings and curl ings - until brother comes along with his toy barber...
...puffs of frosty breath. No doubt it had forgotten the sky in the last few minutes and was interested to rediscover it. But at last it grew bored, and tried to roll over. To do this, it held its arms and legs as rigid as those of a Dutch doll and jerked them violently in the air. These exertions produced only a slight rocking movement in its perfectly round body, of which the pro portion to its limbs was about that of a tortoise. But the baby continued its struggles until, by accident, it kicked both legs and arms...
...subjects were strictly 20th century but a long way from conventional modernism. Painter Paul Resika, 24, who once was an abstractionist, showed two straining dockworkers grappling with heavy sacks against a classic background; Pegeen Helion, 27, produced a pattern of bright, doll-like figures in gondolas, and German-born Ernest Mondorf, 27, a large, symbolic study of intertwined nudes...
...effort would be made to treat it. Her "acute mania" went untreated and got worse. From her record for Sept. 6, 1892: "Very disorderly and untidy. Nervous and tears her clothing. She has to be fed." For Dec. 29, 1893 (when she was 24): "Unchanged. Received a rubber doll for Christmas and seemed quite pleased with...