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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...high doll whose face-a composite of 20 Congressional Medal of Honor winners-is instantly recognized in at least 10 million American homes. Launched over three years ago by Hassenfeld Bros, of Pawtucket, R.I., he has 21 movable parts that enable him to salute smartly, grasp the fork of a tiny mess kit with ease, crouch in a foxhole or squeeze into a Jeep. "He's like a real person," said Chicago's Jon Anderson, 5. And while some fathers worry that doll-playing is "sissy," others find Joe "real gutsy." Asks one mother: "How else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Front & Center | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...creators, G.I. Joe is also a gold mine. "Once a kid gets Joe," says President Merrill Hassenfeld happily, "his parents are hooked." Not only hooked, but squirming, for, though the basic doll costs only $4, he comes with enough extra equipment to make a quartermaster's head swim, can be equipped for multiple duties ranging from ski patrol and forward artillery observer to underwater demolition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Front & Center | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

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