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...Worlds of Wonder, in particular, the next four weeks may determine whether the company survives. The fledgling firm, founded in 1985 in Fremont, Calif., became an industry legend on the strength of two blockbuster toys: Teddy Ruxpin, the personable talking bear that debuted in 1985, and last year's Lazer Tag ray-gun game. The company, soon known aptly enough as WOW, chalked up earnings of $18.6 million on sales of $327 million during its past fiscal year, making it one of the fastest-growing new manufacturing concerns in history. But in the view of industry analysts, the company expanded...
...going to do anything. We're going to drop it," said Kenneth Kohler, head of the Fremont Indian Museum in Sevier, Utah. "We'll have plenty of nice things here, and we're not going to worry about them...
Kohler's decision to stop negotiating with Peabody marked the end of a two-month dispute over Harvard's collection of 2000 Fremont Indian artifacts. Peabody curators said the items, excavated by Harvard archaeologist Noel Morss in the 1920's, were the first such relies ever found from the tribe, which lived in what is now Utah more than 600 years...
Kohler had claimed in early September that his museum had a legal right to the artifacts, but he withdrew that claim last week. This Friday he telephoned Peabody Museum Assistant Director Rosemary W. Joyce to propose a trade of Fremont Indian artifact collections...
Joyce said she repeated the museum's refusal to discuss an exchange of artifacts until the Fremont Museum's directors acknowledged Harvard's title to the Morss collection...