Word: toye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little boy with the body of a toy and the neck that works like a spring seemed forever in a jam. But at London's Stoll Theater last week, Little Noddy had plenty of friends. All he had to do when in trouble was to peer over the footlights and cry: "You'll help me, won't you, children?"-and hundreds of squeaky voices would answer: "Of course we will, Noddy. Of course!" In the six years since Author Enid Blyton first put him into a book. Little Noddy has amassed a formidable following...
...Work was rushing ahead last week on Disney's particular hobbyhorse ("The world's biggest toy," one of his friends called it, "for the world's biggest boy"): an $11 million "permanent World's Fair" set on 160 acres in Anaheim, just 30 minutes from the center of Los Angeles. "Disneyland" opening next July, will be able to handle 10,000 cars and 40,000 people a day. The park will be divided into four areas: 1) Fantasyland-a guided tour through the Disney imagination, during which the visitor takes a ride in an airborne pirate...
Mickey has worked business miracles. During the Depression the Lionel Corp., manufacturer of toy trains, was rescued from receivership by the prodigious sale (253,000 items) of a handcar carrying figures of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. The Ingersoll people were pulled out of a bad financial hole by a terrific run on their Mickey Mouse watches-of which more than 8,000,000 have been sold to date. Since 1929 Mickey's name or picture has appeared on 5,000 different lines of merchandise, from milk of magnesia to a $1,200 diamond bracelet to a radiator...
...stairways leading to Macbeth's room and the guest room where King Duncan was murdered. Because Actor Maurice Evans and Schaefer conceived the play as "an extremely personal and domestic drama," all these elements were built in proper relation to each other, rather like the enlargement of a toy castle. Instead of the actors going to the camera, the camera followed the actors...
...Silver Chalice), Judy Holliday (plugging Phffft), Carol Haney (plugging The Pajama Game), and Pinky Lee (plugging himself). Whenever Commentators Francis and Downs ran out of comments-which was frequently-the TV camera returned to the studio for commercials by Tootsie Roll, Crosley, Heinz, Alcoa, and U.S..toy manufacturers. There was not much time left for the parade...