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Word: pattie (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Biggest seller among the high-priced toys is a $30, bright-eyed, 3-ft.-tall plastic doll built like a three-year-old girl. The Ideal Toy Corp.'s Patti Play Pal has surprised even its makers, who shipped 500,000 dolls, found her copied by at least six other makers selling their versions for as low as $7.99. The first big doll to really catch on, Patti owes her success to the industry's ability to make her light in weight (4¾Ibs.) and so lifelike that she can wear her owner's clothes. Other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Magic Market | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...strip character named Jane, who won fame by appearing in the near altogether at any and every opportunity. Jane, by calendar count, should now be about 53 years old, and her lissome virtues have palled on Britain's youth. Installed in her place was a postgraduate nymphet named Patti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Accent on Youth | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Born. To Slapstick Comic Jerry Lewis, 33, cinemaniac (Don't Give Up the Ship), toastmaster and song gargler (Big Songs for Little People), and Patti Lewis, 35: a fifth son, fifth child; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Anthony Joseph. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Chaprales keeps his Pacemaker, the Patti C. III, anchored at the Charlesgate Yacht Club, and fishes off Rockport and the Cape for tuna, which is the largest game fish in the area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Restaurateur Lands a Big One | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

...week's end the D.J.s were still collecting their annual dew, sloshing from hospitality suite to hospitality suite getting ready for an all-night party with top entertainers (Patti Page, Vic Damone, Peggy Lee, Pat Boone, etc.). The temperature in Miami was in the 80s, and there were circles of sweat even under the tone arms of the companies' endlessly blaring phonographs. But most of the D.J.s would stay happy for another year, and that is what mattered-for, as all the companies agreed: "Without you, boy, we're dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISK JOCKEYS: The Big Payola | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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