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...largest doll manufacturer on the West Coast is a copper-haired, blue-eyed, thirtyish San Franciscan named Nancy Ann Abbott, who had intended to be a movie star. Last week Miss Abbott sat in unaccustomed peace in her blue-carpeted studio-office: by her orders all the telephone lines that connect Nancy Ann Dressed Dolls Inc. with the world had been disconnected. Her reason: "When that phone rings it means trouble...
...began when Miss Abbott left Hollywood - where she had moved up from bit dancing parts to leads in a few horse operas - to look after her ailing mother. A shameless doll lover, she dressed up a small bisque (ceramic) baby doll for a friend who worked at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Next day she had 450 orders from admiring Met employes. Of her original "Hush-a-bye Baby" model she now says, "it became so popular we had to drop it." It gave her no time for her main idea: to make collections of "storybook dolls" illustrating nursery tales...
...early as 1939, Miss Abbott decided that the "made in Japan" label on the dolls she dressed was bad business. So she opened the first bisque doll pottery in the U.S., in Berkeley. This year she took over a bankrupt pottery in Stockton, Calif. But she had to take on a war order: a $500,000 contract for bisque cups, platters and dishes for Navy hospitals. The contract fitted in: bisque tableware turned out to have the same firing temperature, and besides the doll figure can be used-and is-in place of fire bricks to regulate furnace drafts...
Note to lots of people who have wondered: Joe (ISpellMyNameinCode) Prychodzin pronounces it "Sicodgin" and would have you do likewise. . .Things one wonders about while being scooped: What is the choice One who watches Dog in its daily trek back from the gym. . .you know, the doll who frames herself in the store window, fotches a comely smile while the boys hold Rossi in ranks...
...Christmas. He spent much of his time in his garden workshop. He made toy battleships and airplanes, repaired Joyce's doll house. Otherwise, toys being so scarce and costly, the children might have had no new ones for Christmas. He visited the school to see how his kids were making out; the teacher made him tell an assembly about "life in the desert." On his last night the family had a feast of roast lamb, boiled potatoes, cabbage, Queen's pudding-a spongy affair with...