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...Would you," asked Stalin, "also forbid the existence of watchmakers and furniture factories for making parts of shells? The Germans produced toy rifles which were used for teaching hundreds of thousands of men how to shoot . . . There was control after the last war, but it failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Double Bluff | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Good Meringue. Everyone adores little Sigi. When he asks to take a toy to bed, there are trills of laughter. "But this child is his father over again," gurgles lovely Albertine. "The moment he sees something pretty he wants to take it to bed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Free French | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...matched leash and collar for her dog-$55 the set. I. Mangin suggested an electric-driven "magic pillow," to support the back of the "tired-busy woman," the head of the "tired businessman." "Its pulsating motion reduces nervous tension," explained Magnin, and asked $89.50 for it. ¶ Ann Payson, toy manufacturer of Hackensack, N.J., announced that her firm would stop making penny banks, concentrate on toy banks that took coins of higher mintage. These days, she said, "most children do not show much appreciation for anything less than a dime." ¶ The bug shield-that plastic gadget on the snouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

Random Harvest. In Denver, cops made the pinch on general principles when they spotted a car containing: 1) James Yohe, 2) Charles Crider, 3) two women, 4) a toy wagon, 5) a toy tractor, 6) a wooden horse, 7) a white rabbit, 8) a quart of whisky, 9) a red hen, 10) a garbage can, 11) a black hen, 12) a gamecock, 13) a deodorized skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 8, 1951 | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

Suspicion Confirmed. The boys played with their strange toy for a couple of months, until they burned a hole in Mrs. Epperson's clothes, too. She then took Donald and the hunk of metal to Albert Law, editor of the Dalhart Texan. Law, in the belief that it might be a meteorite, sent it to the University of New Mexico to have it analyzed by Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, and his research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Buried Treasure | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

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