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...Toy Time. Things can also go wrong, of course. Brunswick and AMF, for example, profited from the bowling boom in the '50s only to suffer later from competition from other pastimes. Still, dividends from the fun-and-games business do not always come in cash. "This is toy time," says Herbert J. Siegel, president of Chris-Craft. "If a guy can justify an acquisition by getting into the 'leisure time' market, he can have a good time." As Siegel himself undoubtedly does. He was chairman of Baldwin-Montrose Chemical Co. until last January, when, in a prelude...
...toy industry, it has long been an article of faith that a youngster who plays with make-believe guns is no more likely to grow up a criminal than a boy who plays with make-believe churches is apt to mature into a saint. Yet as a result of the furor over gun controls that followed the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, toy guns may soon be much harder to obtain...
Sears, Roebuck, the world's biggest retailer, has removed toy guns from its Christmas catalogue and ordered its 815 stores to stop advertising guns and "similar toys of violence." Department stores throughout the U.S. are "de-emphasizing" toy guns, which usually means that they are not placing new orders. In Manhattan, Bloomingdale's and Stern Bros, have even taken their exsting stock off the shelves. Payson Sawyer, 35, one of Maine's largest toy distributors and leader of a citizens' group called "Toy Disarmament," has earmarked his entire stock of toy guns for a big bonfire...
Playful Aggression. The move toward toy disarmament has gained an ally in Dr. Spock. In his revised edition of Baby and Child Care, published last July, Spock writes: "We should bring up the next generation of Americans with a greater respect for law and for other people's rights and sensibilities. One simple opportunity we could utilize in the first half of childhood is to show our disapproval of lawlessness and violence in television programs and in children's pistol play...
...releasing aggression. Moreover, points out Dr. Sirgay Sanger, child psychiatrist at Manhattan's Payne Whitney Clinic: "Forbiddance only leads to fascination." Thus, total disarmament is probably unattainable. While there is a piece of wood handy and a boy to shout "Bang, bang, you're dead!," toy guns are likely to remain a part of childhood...