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...favors and other products. But one who did not celebrate Pooh's 50th birthday last week was Christopher Robin Milne, 56, the author's son, whose 1974 autobiography, The Enchanted Places, described the trials of growing up in the shadow of a Teddy bear. "Pooh is a toy I had as a child," says Mime, now a bookstore owner in Devon, England. "The exploitation of the books makes me sick. I do hope there will be no more of these anniversaries." Anyway, as Pooh's gloomy pal Eeyore philosophized in The House at Pooh Corner: "What...
Arguing against the ERA, Smith said "the constitution is not a toy to be used for symbolic purposes." She warned that the ERA's passage would make women liable for the support of their husbands and for the draft...
...Long Island, the hard-driven anemometer on the Vanderbilt yacht Vara registered, a windspeed of 91 m.p.h. before it self-destructed. The bell of Sag Harbor's Old Whalers' Church tolled crazily until one last lifting gust, like a petulant child with a toy, tore the steeple completely off its base and dashed it to the ground. In New London, Conn., the element of fire joined the element of wind, raging from 4:30 that afternoon until 11 in the evening. And then there was water-"water, water everywhere," as one witness remembered. By the time the last...
...Toddler with a Gun" [Aug. 9]: if we did not glorify gunplay on TV and if we refused to buy toy weapons for our children to confuse with the real thing, little Jeffery Krauch might still be alive today. No one was charged because too many shared the guilt...
...feel like Orson Welles when he first came to Hollywood and cried, 'This is the most beautiful toy in the world.' " So said French Theater Director Patrice Chéreau, 31, as he contemplated the prospect of staging the centennial celebration of the Bayreuth Festival with a new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner's longest, densest and most puzzling creation. The results were on display last week at the somber brick Festspielhaus, which Wagner himself designed, and they brought on a storm of booing deep and raw. A few people both booed and clapped...