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...grandmotherly looking lady walked into F.A.O. Schwarz, the fabulous Fifth-Avenue toy shop, one day last week and announced: "I'm interested in toys for a six-year-old boy and a four-year girl-and I'd like them to be very American." For half an hour she examined and tested a procession of toys before settling for a steam shovel ($5), a plastic tea set ($3), a baking set ($5), a chocolate-drink mixer ($5) and a collection of plastic bricks ($5). Except for her clipped accent and a certain bedlamic stir that trailed after...
...School, when Frank O'Connor discusses the nineteenth century novel, he does not disguise the fact that the only thing he thinks worthy of writing about is "the common feelings of common life." Esetericism he says may be perfectly well written but it has no more substance than a toy balloon. But O'Conner, unlike the great majority of realists, carries his theory further than his material. His is a common, clean response to the common feelings of common life. There are few, if any, symbols in his work; there is no prediction of doom. Frequently he allows himself...
...domestic crises in suburban Connecticut. And sometimes Author Böll's sense of the macabre runs amuck. As Kate tells Fred that she is pregnant again, the druggists outside the hotel are applauding a flight of small planes that drop contraceptive ads followed by red rubber toy storks with broken necks...
...response to "the resurgence of religious feeling and practice in America today,", the Ideal Toy Co. is putting on sale a kneejointed doll that can be made to "kneel in a praying position." <| Religious and economic booms in the postwar U.S. have brought no material gain to clergymen, the National Council of the Churches of Christ reports. Congregational ministers now average $3,313 a year (up from $1,769 in 1939) and United Presbyterian ministers $3,709 (up from $1,979). Allowing for inflation, says the council, the raises leave the ministers a few dollars a month behind where they...
Triple Threat. In St. Louis, in three robbery attempts in one month, John Wisdom Wallace 1) tried to hold up a grill with a toy pistol, fled empty-handed when a waitress threw a glass of water at him; 2) tried to rob a confectionery, fled empty-handed when the proprietor shot at him; 3) tried to hold up another confectionery, was tackled by 74-year-old Owner Arnold Barnes, who sat on Wallace until the police arrived...