Word: toye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Orcka Halprin, onetime violinist with the Detroit Symphony, got the idea his daughter might be a prodigy when he heard her picking out radio tunes on a toy piano at the age of two. He tested her further, discovered she had absolute pitch.* Also, "she was really born with a fiddle hand," broad and dexterous. At three, Diana got her first violin, a four-ounce affair, one-eighth adult size, and began taking lessons from her father...
...black sleeves, hats with spots that could not be removed . . . Thousands of padlocks put on the market by a factory in Pola can be opened with the same key. Forks produced by the Vjeceslav Holjevac factory in Karlovac were too sharp, but the knives were too blunt . . . The Uzor toy factory in Zagreb manufactured dolls dressed completely in black, while dolls made by the Jadran factory had crooked legs and their arms were of different lengths...
Eoina Nudelman is a Russian-born artist who makes a living illustrating children's books and designing toys. In Chicago three years ago, Artist Nudelman designed a little toy pig that would cling to a cereal bowl, "eat" anything fed to it, and then inconspicuously drop its food back into the bowl. Entranced by Nudelman's gadget, Chicago's Topic Toys sent "Hungry Piggy" off to market and got a patent. But soon the pig had unwanted company...
Last week, Chinese Communist newspapers announced almost daily executions. Four former Nationalist officers were sentenced to death in Canton. After the failure of a peasant revolt in Shantung, nine of the ringleaders were executed. In Toy-shan, Kwangtung Province, 165 guerrillas were captured. Chinese Red army headquarters said14,781 bandits had been killed last month in the Kwangsi mountains...
...LONDON, Gian-Carlo Menotti got an opening-night ovation for The Consul, in contrast to the pandemonium of boos and bravos it raised at La Scala (TIME, Feb. 5). Nobody tried to drown out the singers with toy whistles or shouted "Down with America!" Said Menotti: "I still have friends in Britain...