Word: toye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moppet Motorcar. At the American Toy Fair in Manhattan, the Ideal Toy Corp. displayed a motorcar with a Fiberglas body for moppets. The car is 62 in. long, 30 in. wide, is powered by a six-volt battery and has a top speed of 5 m.p.h. Price: around...
...curl and yellow on the bulletin boards, some 200 marooned U.S. officers and men have found various ways to alleviate boredom since the Panmunjom talks were broken off last October. The latest (in addition to cards, pingpong, movies, basketball, pheasant hunting in the nearby hills and sleeping): assembling toy trains from kits sent from Japan...
...most serious collectors of toy soldiers in the world have a club of their own-and bristle at the words "toy soldier." They are the members of Paris' Society of the Collectors of Historical Figurines, and they see nothing juvenile or toylike about their speciality. Far from it. To the devotee, each brightly painted hussar and mustachioed grenadier is an honest work of art, deserving the same patience and devotion in its creation as a Rodin statue...
...Eisenhower headquarters in New York's Commodore Hotel last week, Christmas jollity manifested itself chiefly in the bounding of plastic grasshoppers. An old and previously unnamed plaything, the toy grasshopper, which has springy metal legs and a rubber suction cup on its belly, was promptly christened "the Eisen-hopper" by fascinated newsmen. Introduced into Ike's offices by his old friend, Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx, the Eisenhopper caught the President-elect's fancy. Talking business with serious-faced guests, Ike would casually press a hopper on to his desk, and roar with delight when, seconds later...
...being held up, Mrs. Lorene McGehee, the teller, just called the bank manager, who hustled out and took Grandma's toy gun away from her. "I'm not Grandma," cried Grandma. But when the cops questioned her, she broke down...