Word: jiggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making mechanical toys popular in the U.S. Within a year, Marx was head of a Strauss factory. He left to become a toy seller, and soon had enough money to buy Strauss's factories and his most successful mechanical toys-"Zippo the Climbing Monkey" and the "Alabama Coon Jigger," a tap-dancing minstrel. Most competitors thought these two items were finished. Marx proved them wrong: he sold 16 million. Now he has 14 factories spread from Erie. N.Y. to South Africa. Marx has the knack of picking "hot" new toys, and mass-producing old standbys to cut the price...
...Square Garden last week; Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura and Pauline Betz Addie took what poster space was left. As a reflection of tennis ability this made no sense, but the pros knew what they were doing. Their box-office mixture is not tennis alone, but tennis with a brimming jigger of circus stuff...