Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mission hospital. There, he strung the cutouts from a nail driven into one of the roughhewn beams of the wall. The decoration "was an instantaneous success," he reported. "The patients, all of them abandoned orphans and most of them under two years of age, were fascinated with the new toy as the nurses dangled it over the beds and cribs that fill the wood-floored ward . . . Now, with enough cards to string from one end of the room to the other, we have some added color and interest for our patients recovering from this prevalent disease. They...
Party-Throwing Elsa Maxwell, arriving in Europe for another summer's social whirl, described "the most wonderful present your reporter ever received." Manhattan Toy Manufacturer Lee Bland, "a dreamboat" so far as Elsa is concerned, had sent her a letter: "This will entitle Elsa Maxwell to have all the balloons and everything else my factories make, whenever she desires...
Home 3-D. Lionel Corp., toy train-makers, announced a three-dimensional stereo camera, equipped with dual lenses which take separate pictures simultaneously. For 3-D effect, the film must be looked at through a special viewer. Price for camera, case, viewer and eight stereo pairs of film, $39.95, less than half the price of stereo cameras now on the market...
...behind the Iron Curtain. The Mexican embassy called it a nonpolitical, fact-finding trip. In company with a Mexican friend, he flew to Vienna, Prague and on to Warsaw. There he met assorted Polish bigwigs and took in a Communist exhibition, "This Is America," featuring a display of the toy bazookas, flamethrowers and junior space suits which war-crazed, blood-thirsty American parents buy their kids. At week's end, the former President flew on back, in high spirits, to Paris, announced that he hoped later to visit Moscow. Perplexed Mexicans, reading of his travels, recalled that...
Three excited youngsters, sons of Manhattan's millionaire Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx, arrived recently at the Fort Myer, Va. quarters of General Omar Bradley for a visit with their star-studded godfathers. Result: a medley of big names and a remarkable godfather-godson picture. The host posed in the background with the Air Force's Major General Emmett ("Rosey") O'Donnell. On a couch sat Dwight Eisenhower holding Spencer Bedell Marx, 3½. Under Secretary of State Lieut. General Walter Bedel! Smith held Emmett Dwight Marx, 2½, and squirming on the lap of General George Marshall...