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...Christmas toy buying started with a rush last week, retailers predicted that 1959 will be the most successful year in the history of the U.S. toy industry. Total retail sales will reach $1,650,000,000, an 18% increase over 1958. Not only are toymakers selling more, but the big overall trend this year is toward higher prices for more elaborate and ingenious toys. Said a salesman at Dallas' Sanger Bros.: "An $8 toy isn't considered expensive at all any more...
Down, Boy! In Liverpool, England, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals protested the sale of a toy rocket ship containing a plastic dog in its nose cone...
Egged on by an enterprising photographer, a slim blonde airlines clerk walked hesitantly toward New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, holding up a small toy elephant for his autograph. In the midst of a smile and a wave as he left his Convair at Chicago's Midway Airport, Rocky suddenly froze when he saw her. Throwing up a defensive hand and moving away, he brusquely set the tone of an uncertain week: "I'd not like to stress anything political. I'm sorry...
...backwoods of Western Nigeria last week, Yoruba tribesmen gazed unbelievingly at the strange men who tumbled out of the sky to make speeches and hand out toy balloons. Curious Hausa merchants applauded politely, as jabbering loudspeaker trucks moved slowly through the ancient city of Kano. Independence is coming next year to Britain's big West African colony, the most heavily populated country on the continent. And next month, Nigeria (pop. 35.7 million) will choose its first national government...
...president of the Lionel Corp. since 1946, resigned as president and was named board chairman by a group of investors-headed by Lawyer Roy Cohn-which got control of more than 200,000 of Lionel's 720,000 outstanding shares. Ailing Lionel (1958 loss: $469,057), a leading toy-train maker, also produces baseball gloves, fishing gear and electronic devices. Cohn, once chief counsel of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigating subcommittee, said his group will name a new president in the near future and adopt "drastic marketing changes...