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...Myth is real to me," Boghosian says. There were moments when it was almost too real as he began to see related shapes and symbols everywhere. He saw it in a farm harrow, the understructure of a funeral wreath that was shaped like a lyre, in dozens of tiny toy buglers he found in a flea market. At one point, after other children gibed at his young daughter about her father's playing with toys, Boghosian sat down and reflected on his purpose. "The play world becomes for the artist a real world," he concluded, "while the real world...
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...added that Ecology Action would seek out stores in Harvard Square which carry products made from these animals, including the Coup, which sells alligator belts, and toy stores which sell stuffed koala bears and leopards...
...that cute little toy, you have to slaughter the animal itself," Wilson said...
Died. Frank Folsom, 75, president of RCA Corp. from 1949 to 1957, whose merchandising genius sparked the television boom of the '50s; of liver cancer; in Scarsdale, N.Y. After joining RCA in 1944, Folsom reasoned that the job of selling TV, then little more than an expensive toy, was a job for the entire industry, not RCA alone; he therefore let competitors in on his plans for a low-priced set, then in the scramble that followed captured a lion's share of the market with such innovations as the contract system of servicing. When he retired...