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...Assistant Sherman Adams came in with some papers for Ike to sign. For the second time in nine days, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spent a 25-minute period at Ike's bedside. When Dulles arrived, Ike promptly ordered him to sign his "guest book": a yellow toy dog that he had received for his birthday. Then the two got down to the business at hand: last-minute strategy for the forthcoming foreign ministers' conference at Geneva...
...signatures on the toy dog's hide grew, Jim Hagerty became infuriated by a New York Times story, which reported that "the most [the President] will be able to get from such visitors to his bedside . . . will be the most superficial and 'pasteurized' summaries of the issues upon which he must make a choice." To the press Hagerty snorted that nothing could be further from the truth. "Dillon Anderson saw the President for 15 minutes today," he said, "and you can take it from me that what they talked about was not pasteurized. It was top-secret...
Among the Ford family the car was known as "Billy's toy." This week young (30) William Clay Ford rolled his toy out for all the world to see. It is the Ford Motor Co.'s Continental Mark II, the 1956 version of the classic Lincoln Continental, which many car buffs consider the best-looking U.S. car ever designed. With his toy, Billy Ford hopes to race past Cadillac and take over as builder of the nation's No. 1 prestige car. Price of the Continental...
...Thank you very much for the {train, tractor, germ gun. kite, delicious present*, sweets, space pistol, toy socks...
...John Wanamaker's suburban department store in Yonkers, N.Y. last week, shoppers crowded around a 47-in.-high automobile, small enough to jump over. It had only three wheels and a tiny (10 h.p.) engine, hooked up to the single rear wheel. But it was no toy. It could carry three passengers at a 'top speed of 60 m.p.h., could go 94 miles on a gallon of gasoline. The price: $869 to $998. The maker: the Messerschmitt Works of Regensburg, West Germany...