Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven-room Park Avenue apartment with his widowed mother. He became a partner in a highly successful law firm and began looking for what he has called "the sweet deal"-high finance. Borrowing $900,000 from Hong Kong and Panamanian moneylenders, he gathered control of the flagging Lionel Corp. (toy trains, electronics, etc.) in 1959. For a while Lionel picked up, but it fell back again, losing a whopping $4,500,000 in 1962 alone. Entrepreneur Cohn also bought a swimming pool company, invested in a New York City bus line, a small loan company, a national travel agency, helped...
...Toy Bulldozers. Romper Room headquarters is in Baltimore, where the show was originated ten years ago by Bert Claster, a vaudeville impresario who had spotted longer green in TV. His wife Nancy became the first Romper Room teacher. Soon CBS made an offer to Claster, but Claster had another idea. A Norfolk, Va., TV station manager had asked if he could imitate Romper Room. "No," said Claster in effect. "I'll make a copy and send it to you." He trained a teacher, sent her to Norfolk with a kit of sets and props and kept her supplied with...
...year-old man was picked up by Los Angeles police after he tried to rob two banks by threatening tellers with a baseball bat. A housewife left her two children eating candy at a bus-stop in Hermosa Beach, stuck up a Bank of America branch at toy gun point for $4,000, picked up her kids and strolled away. She was arrested down the street. Ludicrous as some of these amateurs' efforts are, they do not amuse the cops. Growls one Los Angeles veteran: "When you take loot, you've lost your amateur standing...
Children tested divided themselves into two categories: those who simply grabbed a toy and left, casting a curious stare at the adult experimenters; and those who hesitated, changed their minds, and showed some anxiety at the problem of choice presented to them...
...Toys were once merely fun. Now they are considered "essential aids to child development." Newest, put on display last week at Manhattan's Toy Guidance Exhibit, is a magnetized doll-house ($15) raised on stilts and inhabited by a family of lifelike dolls. Any bright little girl can move the dolls by manipulating a magnetic wand underneath the floor. "It's a new concept," explained Exhibit Director Mrs. Janet Freud (whose father-in-law claims kinship to Sigmund). "Now the child can control Mama and Papa. The mother can go to the sink or she can iron...