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...Angeles industrial designer who had gone into the picture-frame business found himself with a lot of extra frame slats and decided to make doll furniture with them. Thanks to the doll furniture, Elliot Handler and his wife Ruth cleared $30,000 on sales of $100,000 that year. The Handlers have never quite matched that profit margin, but in the 17 years since then their Mattel, Inc. has joined the front rank of U.S. toymakers. Last year Mattel earned $4,000,000 on sales of $49,400,000. And in the first half of this year, the Handlers happily...
...ager which appeals to little girls because it looks "grown up" and to their parents because it is inexpensive. Made in Japan to save on labor costs, the Barbie doll (which now has a boy friend named Ken) is priced at $3 retail and has become, according to Ruth Handler, "the greatest phenomenon that ever hit the toy business.'' Mattel also offers separately a Barbie wardrobe ranging from lingerie up to a $5 wedding gown...
...rock 'n' roll blares from a portable phonograph. Precisely at 2:30 p.m., Liston announces his arrival with an electrifying rat-a-tat on the lightweight "speed bag." He begins to shadowbox, sliding lithely about the ring, huge fists darting out at imaginary opponents. "Time!" calls a handler, and Liston begins to whale away in earnest at his sparring partners. "Time!" again, and Liston switches his attack to the heavy punching bag. Then he skips rope (to the tune of Night Train), winds up his workout with a dramatic, neck-wrenching headstand on a rubbing table...
...avid reader of TIME and a sometime handler of show dogs, I'm very curious as to the breed of dog pictured with Mrs. Winston Guest on the cover of TIME, July 20. It looks a bit like a Saluki. JULIA L. HUNT New Haven, Conn. > Mrs. Guest's dog, Sultan, is indeed a smooth-haired Saluki, Egypt's royal dog and perhaps the oldest known domesticated breed...
Monkeys carry the virus without showing any ill effects. But in a case described by Physician Love and Veterinarian Jungherr. a 24-year-old lab worker came down with a bewildering variety of symptoms after going to work as a monkey handler, developed a polio-like stiffness of the neck and died. The autopsy showed that monkey virus B had spread through his lungs, heart, spinal cord and brain...