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...Portland, Ore., photographers gathered to record the second birthday of Nicholas Delano Seagraves, first great-grandchild of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Young Nicholas, a husky 30-pounder, obliged by mounting a one-eared toy donkey and flashing a smile that had more than passing resemblance to great-grandmother Eleanor. "He loves to eat," said his mother, the former "Sistie" Dall, "and there isn't anything he doesn't like. He has all the teeth he's supposed to have, but I don't know just how many that...
...addition to West Berlin's relatively prosperous streets, the West's strongest counter-attractions last week: 1) free meals and movies; 2) a dazzling U.S. display of electric toy trains; 3) a U.S. Air Force helicopter which was sent up to keep an eye on the festival, but almost got lost in a swarm of 20,000 cooing pigeons released by the Communist state managers as symbols of Red-style "peace...
Matt had "helped out" before, too, he told the court. In 1949, he and a friend got one of Osborne's clients out of a murder rap by their rehearsed testimony; neither one of them, had been anywhere near the murder. In another case, Lawyer Osborne had pushed toy automobiles around the floor of his office for two hours so that one of Matt's friends would be familiar with the details of an auto-accident case. At Osborne's urging, they signed a bogus eyewitness statement, and the lawyer rubbed it on the floor to make...
Television's real growth came after World War II, and by its tenth birthday last week, commercial TV was very commercial indeed; a TV set was no longer a temperamental toy, but the everyday benzedrine or phenobarbital of the masses. Now there are 109 stations in 66 cities; the hour of TV time that cost $120 on July 1, 1941 cost $3,250 last week. There are four Eastern networks, each with an outpost on the West Coast; the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. is building the last section of a coaxial cable and radio relay system which will link...
Comet was started as a die-casting shop in 1919 by the Slonim brothers' immigrant father. When the two sons came into the business during the mid-'30s, they parlayed their hobby of toy soldiers into a profitable sideline. Three days after Pearl Harbor, Comet got its first Government order, made 50,000 model warships for the Navy. In 1943, its peak year, it turned out more than $2,000,000 in models for the Government, everything from a ½-in. U.S. infantryman in full battle dress (price: $1.85 a dozen) to a complicated submarine with a finished...