Word: toye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain, the mention of Japanese imports sets business tempers flaring. Last year some manufacturers refused to let a 19-man Japanese delegation view their new lines at the Brighton Toy Fair because "they come here to copy our designs and then undersell us with cheap reproductions." British textile manufacturers complain of deceptive Japanese labeling. But, says one trade official: "Let's face it. Their goods have improved tremendously in quality, and they no longer have to copy our designs." Basic British complaint: Japanese wages are only 35% of the average British wage...
...poster bed (bearing a five-ft.-three-skeleton), inlaid screens and tables, riding gear, weapons and quantities of bronze objects, from giant caldrons ornamented with winged figures to enormously complex hairpins with concealed catches. Buried with a little prince were a vase in the shape of a goose and toy animals of great refinement...
Oedipal Wreck. Ensuing events follow each other to confusion like derailed freight cars. They involve the sergeant's stepfather, a Senator who trades on his war wound and resembles McCarthy as played by Lou Costello, and his mother, a megalomaniac who maneuvers the Senator like a windup toy and makes an Oedipal wreck...
Once upon a time (i.e., four years ago) professionally sentimental, consistently profitmaking Hollywoodsman Walt Disney built the zingiest, zowiest toy his fertile mind could imagine-and then invited others to come play with it. So far, some 16 million have taken up the offer. Last week 24,000, including Vice President Nixon and his family, were on hand to help Walt celebrate the fourth anniversary of the toy. Crooned M.C. Art (People Are Funny) Linkletter: "Disneyland -its only purpose . . . the pursuit of happiness...
...were at home, and even other people somehow look nicer-good enough to wave at. They can search the primitive labyrinthine waters of Florida's Everglades, wake to the spontaneous burst of sound and color of the Mangrove Coast, where thousands of roosting ibis, egrets, anhingas and spoonbills toy, and where silver tarpon jump by moonlight and coons and otters feed and play. They fish under the dawn-pink sky out of San Diego, and in the cool basins of the Colorado mountains. And they can just laze...