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DIED. Mickey Walker, 79, the pugnacious "Toy Bulldog" who held the welterweight World Boxing Championship from 1922 to 1926, and went on to hold the middleweight title for five years before relinquishing it in 1931 to make an unsuccessful bid for the crown as a light heavyweight; of Parkinson's disease; in Freehold, N.J. A colorful, aggressive fighter who often took on bigger and heavier opponents, Walker scored 58 knockouts in a total of 148 bouts, winning an estimated $3 million over 17 years. After retiring from the ring in 1935, he took up painting, gaining some prominence...
...only kick a stone so many times before one breaks one's toe. Shlink, a wily masochist, turns over his lumber plant to Garga and thus entraps him. Garga must now buy and sell not only lumber but human beings. Shlink and Garga exchange fortunes, trying to out-toy fate. Unfortunately, Director David Jones understresses the Rimbaud-Verlaine love-hate homosexual bond, which is at the core of the drama. At play's end Shlink takes his own life with a vial of poison, and Garga moves to New York-an anambiguous ending if ever there...
...they provide "simple pleasures to millions of people every day" with their beer and smokes, they also pay for a lot of paintings. Just for instance, they sponsored "Expressionism: A German Institution of 1905-1920," which toured the country. And an Edward Hopper retrospective. And a Seven-Up toy display titled "Small Folk." And in other ways: when they design cigarette packages and beer bottles. Philip Morris personnel engage in "an endless search for innovative development of quality items with compelling appeal." As the annual report insists...
...Divesting U.S. holdings--which only amount to ten per cent of total foreign investments is a "toy argument," Purnell said, adding, "companies around the world will remain, regardless of our rhetoric...
Happily, the remedy to his dilemma comes to Nam in a dream: a blue-eyed American sergeant breaks into a bucolic toy community and despoils the place. Animal figurines and little children drive out the invader. So inspired is Nam that he rushes out to the rifle range and knocks off four G.I. targets in a row. As schoolmates cheer, an instructor exclaims, "When you have enough hatred, you can hit them...