Word: toye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scratching up their own coiffures. But the most pampered were the poodles. Ch. Wilber White Swan, a tiny (just 6 Ibs.) four-year-old poodle, patiently put up with hours of clipping, shearing, shampooing (with bluing), and. of course, the inevitable, endless bout with brush and comb. Some 70 toy poodles, including eight of Wilber's get, stole the show...
...toy musical instrument that makes a buzzing sound when one hums into the tube...
Married. Mickey ("The Toy Bulldog") Walker, 54, oldtime welterweight (1922-26) and middleweight (1926-31) world boxing champion turned artist and Manhattan restaurateur; and Martha Gallagher, 35; he for the seventh time, she for the second; in Elizabeth...
...fulltime executive director, the commission hired Henry Toy Jr., a Du Pont executive who had started a citizens' council on education in Delaware. Toy began with a staff of eight in Manhattan. Though the commission had an advisory board of educators, it insisted that no member or staffman have any professional connection with education, religion or politics. Above all, it was to be a clearinghouse of information for whatever local citizens' groups already existed and an agency to guide and inspire new groups. It refused to champion any one educational line, would not associate itself with any professional...
...cover story on "Toycoon" Louis Marx is a pip. I have an anecdote that involves Mr. Marx: several years ago, at Vallauris, France, Irving Berlin and I met Picasso; he'd been making abstract statues-incorporating broken bits and pieces from his children's toys (one creation had a tin washbasin in its stone stomach and a toy propeller imbedded in its navel). We promised to send the children some new toys and asked Louis Marx to ship a few and bill us (which he never did). Santa Marx sent a huge crate of toys, but it took...