Word: toye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After ten days of testimony the trial ended last week in a frenzy of name-calling. George Washington Herz, Jelke's attorney, characterized Pat Ward as a "Fifth Amendment prostitute with crocodile tears." Jelke, he said, was just a "little toy poodle." Prosecutor Liebler had another word for him: "Jelke's a male madam; that's what he is!" When the jury came in with a guilty verdict, Mickey, who is now 25, turned as white as lard: he faces a maximum sentence of 40 years in the penitentiary. But with luck and good behavior he will...
...Toy Sewing Machine. Singer Manufacturing Co. brought out a new miniature sewing machine for children that will do everything big machines do except make zigzag stitches. Called Sewhandy, the machine comes with a special guard to protect children's hands from the needle. Price...
Matusow was in good voice and-for part of the time-in good humor. On the stand he idly twisted pipe cleaners into animal forms, shaping a dog, a rabbit and a kangaroo. He testified that he had recently invented "an entertaining, nondestructive toy," but he refused, claiming the immunity granted by the Fifth Amendment, to name the manufacturer for fear of hurting the toy's sales. Curious, Senator Herman Welker persisted: What was the toy? A miniature lie detector? "Well," said Matusow coyly, as the hearing-room crowd roared, "I call it a stringless...
...Peck. Kroch, whose famous father Adolph retired in 1952 after 45 years as a successful independent book dealer, is making no such mistake. The store has a stock of 600,000 volumes. The extras are there, from poker chips to toy Liberace pianos, but the book's the thing. In the store's 40,000 sq. ft., modern design and display are geared to catch the customer's attention. No sentimentalist, young Kroch has introduced supermarket methods in a special self-service department for paperbacks and reprints, provides gaily colored baskets to encourage customers to buy them...
...Washington home, Wisconsin's unmusical Senator Joseph McCarthy, pointedly omitted from the guest lists of two White House dinners last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), happily dawdled with a new toy: a fancy electric organ which his handsome wife Jean gave him for Christmas. After a few lessons, he had already learned how to pick out one tune. The song: Old Black...