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...Airport last week, the whole family was placed under "technical arrest." While their parents argued with representatives of the Home Office, Bubba and Kathy raced in wild unconcern up & down the corridors of the immigration building. When the officials told them to go home forthwith, Bubba menacingly waved a toy six-shooter under their official noses. Next day the officials relented slightly, said it was all right for the Tongays to stay in England for one month. But any swimming the kids did, they warned, must be strictly for fun-not cash...
...Little girls, reported the Literary Gazette, were complaining bitterly about the standardization of dolls in Soviet toy stores. 'All the dolls, they said, had exactly the same faces, hairdos and dresses. ¶ A new decree of Moscow's city fathers warned parents of all Bolshevik bobby-soxers, on pain of a $50 fine, to keep their children off the streets after 10 p.m in winter, 11 p.m. in summer. The decree forbade shopkeepers to sell the youngsters liquor or tobacco, and ordered the kids themselves to quit skating in the streets, to stop hitching rides on the outside...
...story tells of a young man in a huge toy factory who invents a laughing doll called a flahooley. Then, by rubbing a magic lamp, he conjures up a genie who can turn out flahooleys at will. The genie soon gluts the market and becomes the object of an inflamed and rabid genie hunt, with everybody vainly trying to send him back to his native lamp...
Father Orcka Halprin, onetime violinist with the Detroit Symphony, got the idea his daughter might be a prodigy when he heard her picking out radio tunes on a toy piano at the age of two. He tested her further, discovered she had absolute pitch.* Also, "she was really born with a fiddle hand," broad and dexterous. At three, Diana got her first violin, a four-ounce affair, one-eighth adult size, and began taking lessons from her father...
Eoina Nudelman is a Russian-born artist who makes a living illustrating children's books and designing toys. In Chicago three years ago, Artist Nudelman designed a little toy pig that would cling to a cereal bowl, "eat" anything fed to it, and then inconspicuously drop its food back into the bowl. Entranced by Nudelman's gadget, Chicago's Topic Toys sent "Hungry Piggy" off to market and got a patent. But soon the pig had unwanted company...