Word: kit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are hundreds of new hobby and model kits. Strombecker has knock-down dollhouse furniture (7-and 8-piece sets for $2.50) to give aspiring Chippendales a chance to prove their talents; when they have finished making their own furniture, they can assemble a prefab, 6-room dollhouse from a Keystone Wood Toys kit ($14.95). Renwal Manufacturing Co. has a Be a Designer set ($4.98) with 29 pieces of miniature furniture, paints and traceable designs to make the plastic pieces look different. For more advanced work, Walter L. Herne Co. has a three-sided furnished room ($5) with different wallpapers...
...sports-car boom has spawned dozens of kits. Doepke has put out a 50-part set that assembles into a realistic scale model of the MG; Ideal has a Chevrolet Corvette model kit for $4. For more ambitious builders, Revell has motorized its popular "Big Mo" battleship kit ($4.95) with a ready-assembled electric motor. William L. Gilbert Clock Corp. has an 18-piece set ($5.95) that can be made into an electric clock in a short time...
Boys can do their own Simonizing and cleaning with the Kidd-E-Kar Wash kit ($3); girls can cook with a big choice of toys featuring miniature cans and packages of such brand-name products as Campbell Soup, Betty Crocker Cake Mix and Suchard Chocolate. They can clean with Marilyn Products, Inc.'s battery-powered Electrikbroom Jr. ($7.98) and make their own perfumes (Rajah's Scent, Power Dive, Boing, Shmooth, Jeepers...
...couple of expendable Midwestern Republicans also went by the elective boards. Michigan's Representative Kit Clardy, who used to go around Washington muttering about "those Communists in the White House," ran on a platform of "I will vote as I please." Michiganders decided Clardy wouldn't vote at all-at least not in the House. And Illinois' C. W. ("Runt") Bishop was defeated after a 14-year House career marked only by his having been the manager of the Republican House baseball team...
...even his coat, 42-year-old Preacher Sawyer grabbed his movie camera and made for the camp gateway. One nudist tossed a neat block and Sawyer's burly bulk (5 ft.11 in., 225 Ibs.) hit the dust (see cut). Nudists rallied to revive him with a first-aid kit. a camp chair and a sandwich. A few minutes later, he tried again, fell even harder. Next day Preacher Sawyer came back, once again found the gate guarded. Said he earnestly: "I intend to intensify my campaign ... I give them credit for being as sincere as I am. When public...