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There may be a war raging in Viet Nam, but the feedback to the nation's toy manufacturers this year has been minimal. As the Christmas rush went into its last hectic week, retailers had an arsenal of toy guns, helmets, boy-size bazookas and similar military attractions unsold upon the shelves. "People are sickened by anything painted in olive drab," said Harvey Cole, a wholesale distributor in the Seattle area. There was, added a competitor, just one exception. "Along comes G.I. Joe and his endless military gear and the parents rush the stores. You explain...
...toy-bulldog way, Rich is engaging, and fellow musicians are hoping that the band will make it big. If so, it will be another boost for the big-band business, which is enjoying a mild resurgence. If not, says Harry James, "I'm keeping his chair warm...
Into Business. The TV series, breathless with jump cuts, stop action, asides, speedups, titles, slow motion, and every other photographic gimmick that the Beatles people ever thought of, is doing well enough to be assured of a good run. Bright, unaffected and zany, it romps around haunted houses and toy factories with no intention of making things all add up. The boys more or less sing two or three songs per show, while the camera follows them in surrealistic pandemonium aboard everything from unicycles to epicycles. The show ranks 53rd in the Nielsens, but it has 32% of the audience...
Tony Hendra was born in London in an air raid during the German blitz, and his first toy was a piece of shrapnel that landed in his cradle. Nic Ullett, also born in London, was soon evacuated to the countryside, where he was given the privileges of living in a corrugated-iron hut and attending school with six other boys and 65 girls. By the time the two of them met a couple of decades later at Cambridge, their thoughts had somehow acquired a satirical hue. Written down, polished, and delivered onstage with maniacal precision, their reflections on the state...
...hands of his father with the harsh and demanding rule that Lord Randolph imposed upon the boy Winston. This is not the Churchill who was frustrated at Yalta but the Churchill who was flogged for stealing sugar from the pantry at his prep school, the Churchill who collected toy soldiers (at a few shillings a platoon...