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...frank about it: their three-year contracts will soon be up, and they think their pay is lousy ($750 to $1,500 per week). As Judy Carne puts it, "They're very mean at Laugh-In with their money. You can't go into a toy store that doesn't have Laugh-In dolls-even Laugh-In bubble gum. Somebody is cleaning up on us. Now they have Laugh-In restaurants, Fickle-Finger-of-Fate sandwiches." The dropouts are no slouches in the cleaning-up department, of course. They draw anywhere from...
...from several bears ("They are just as articulate as Other Persons"). Bull soon discovered that of the 250 Teddy bears lost on transport vehicles in London each year, almost all are claimed; that exactly 50% of British children surveyed and 55% of American ones consider Teddy their favorite toy; and that 45% of a sampling of British children call their critter "Teddy" because, as many of them pointed out, "he is a Teddy." However, 40% of American slum children who were shown a picture of the toy thought that the animal...
...people from Indiana or the International Order of Odd Fellows or Leverett House. And if the Harvard Club were a granfalloon, would I be able to recognize it, let alone photograph it. "If you wish to study a granfalloon," continues Vonnegut, "just remove the skin of a toy balloon...
...home town of Pekin, Ill., Everett McKinley Dirksen once wrote and directed Chinese Love, a riceball melodrama about the unrequited passion of one Sing Loo for the beauteous Pan Toy. The Washington house of Hugh Doggett Scott Jr., who took over as leader of the Senate Republican minority after Dirksen's death, is chockablock with chinoiserle, mainly from the T'ang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906). That slight Oriental connection is one of the few similarities between the two men. Where Dirksen was a conciliator, expert in sub rosa dealings with Democrats, Scott is an acerbic infighter who means...
...arms around her child and its doll, locking her dirty fingers together. The open neck of her frayed dress uncovers the bones of her chest. She speaks with a half smile, while her child's porcelain cheeks and fixed, black eyes make him more doll-like than his toy...