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Across the U.S., department store toy buyers joyfully talked about the "electronic Christmas." With hundreds of new gadgets operated by battery, remote control or miniature electronic brains, toy sales are heading for a new record. Forecast: $1,184,000,000, up approximately 4% over...
...Ideal Toy Co.'s "Revlon Doll" ($11.95 to $25) is a fully-developed young siren (proportioned to 34-23-34) whose outfit includes nylon stockings, earrings, a bra. The doll is expected to be Ideal's biggest seller since the "Shirley Temple" doll of 20 years...
...rich, Marx has a "Space Satellite Launcher" ($3) that propels the plastic satellite skyward by a hand-crank mechanism; Irwin Corp. a "Skeet Shoot" ($4) that throws targets into the air, for a rifle loaded with darts; and Carrom Industries, a boxing game ($6.95) in which players manipulate toy fighters until the knockout. Of the traditional dolls, stuffed animals, soldiers, and games, there are hundreds of new variations. Madame Alexander has a new doll, "Lissy" ($10 to $15.95), that walks, sits and kneels; the Bonomi Italian dolls ($17.98 to $24.98) feature straight Audrey Hepburn haircuts, come equipped with skating...
...turns back to the year 1915, for example, he can read of a time when Crimson teams treated the Bulldog as a toy poodle...
Restaurants were overflowing and local novelty shops did a landoffice business on toy tigers. An occasional undergraduate carrying text books could be seen travelling furtively along the edges of the crowd...