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Matusow was in good voice and-for part of the time-in good humor. On the stand he idly twisted pipe cleaners into animal forms, shaping a dog, a rabbit and a kangaroo. He testified that he had recently invented "an entertaining, nondestructive toy," but he refused, claiming the immunity granted by the Fifth Amendment, to name the manufacturer for fear of hurting the toy's sales. Curious, Senator Herman Welker persisted: What was the toy? A miniature lie detector? "Well," said Matusow coyly, as the hearing-room crowd roared, "I call it a stringless...
...Peck. Kroch, whose famous father Adolph retired in 1952 after 45 years as a successful independent book dealer, is making no such mistake. The store has a stock of 600,000 volumes. The extras are there, from poker chips to toy Liberace pianos, but the book's the thing. In the store's 40,000 sq. ft., modern design and display are geared to catch the customer's attention. No sentimentalist, young Kroch has introduced supermarket methods in a special self-service department for paperbacks and reprints, provides gaily colored baskets to encourage customers to buy them...
...Washington home, Wisconsin's unmusical Senator Joseph McCarthy, pointedly omitted from the guest lists of two White House dinners last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), happily dawdled with a new toy: a fancy electric organ which his handsome wife Jean gave him for Christmas. After a few lessons, he had already learned how to pick out one tune. The song: Old Black...
...little boy with the body of a toy and the neck that works like a spring seemed forever in a jam. But at London's Stoll Theater last week, Little Noddy had plenty of friends. All he had to do when in trouble was to peer over the footlights and cry: "You'll help me, won't you, children?"-and hundreds of squeaky voices would answer: "Of course we will, Noddy. Of course!" In the six years since Author Enid Blyton first put him into a book. Little Noddy has amassed a formidable following...
Mickey has worked business miracles. During the Depression the Lionel Corp., manufacturer of toy trains, was rescued from receivership by the prodigious sale (253,000 items) of a handcar carrying figures of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. The Ingersoll people were pulled out of a bad financial hole by a terrific run on their Mickey Mouse watches-of which more than 8,000,000 have been sold to date. Since 1929 Mickey's name or picture has appeared on 5,000 different lines of merchandise, from milk of magnesia to a $1,200 diamond bracelet to a radiator...