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...from cost cutting, during which they can pour their profits into research and development. In the meantime, other discounters, like the Koreans, are rushing into the U.S. market to fill the discount gap. "I'm meeting with a group from Seoul tomorrow. Their prices will be better," says Donald Kingsborough, chairman of a California toy company, Worlds of Wonder, that uses a high volume of chips in products like Teddy Ruxpin, the talking bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling the Crunch From Foreign Chips | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...they add a sinister quality to his sudden thrusts. He lunges twice, quickly: "Never forget, first to the body and then to the head." The yarmulkes fall, but the lesson goes on. It is an odd avocation for a nice Jewish boy who is studying political science at Kingsborough Community College, but stranger still is his calmly stated explanation: "I teach karate not for sport but for the street. I want my students to be able to kill, so that if a Jew is ever attacked, that attacker will never come near him again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arming of the Jews | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...years, handsome, six-foot, curly black-haired and swankly mustached Robert Henry Ethelbert King-Tenison, Viscount Kingsborough, 40, heir to the Earl of Kingston, War veteran and a onetime subaltern in the Royal Scots Greys, was on terms of the greatest intimacy with a Miss Adele Royle, 34, dressmakers' mannequin. Early this spring His Lordship's attention began to wander, and Miss Royle promptly sued for breach of promise. The case was instantly quashed in the courts, and Mannequin Royle was fined costs of court. Last week Viscount Kingsborough struck back in turn. In Miss Royle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Viscount & Friend | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...this Viscount Kingsborough set a total value of $252.25. Miss Royle in defense testified that she had sold the miniature rolling stock and the rest at a time when she was out of funds. The court, disapproving, was willing to drop the odd nine bob, but fined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Viscount & Friend | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

There he learned that the Pathfinder had gone down, that Miss Kingsborough was still in the clutches of Sagrado. By chance, he encountered her brother in the street; while the two stood in talk, the stolen lady screamed from a neighboring house. Sard entered; soon he and Sagrado were swapping punches. Sard's right for once failed him ; so did his left. Sagrado, who had the muscle of a baboon, was about to sacrifice the intrepid sailor at the very shrine of his unswerving attachment when? the door burst down, in pelted Brother Kingsborough with reinforcements, Sagrado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Socker* | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

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