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...rumors that Lampoon members had turned in the false alarm, Lionel ("The Toy") Train '50, Lampoon president would only say, "Well, if it had to be any building, I'm glad it was the CRIMSON...
...four-year losing battle for his life; of a bladder ailment; in Cheyenne, Wyo. In 1944, newspaper readers across the land helped Nubbins celebrate Christmas six weeks early because he was not expected to live, filled his home with letters and presents (Railroad Tycoon Bill Jeffers sent a toy automobile, Harry Truman sent a book), have since closely followed his two major operations and long fight in hospitals...
Curly-haired, nine-year-old Symphony Conductor Ferruccio Burco (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948) was making himself at home in the fourth grade at a Manhattan school. Called "Butch" by classmates, he had built up a library of comic books, a collection of toy guns (55), and an impression that "some" little U.S. girls are "pretty...
From Germany's Landsberg Prison (where his friend Adolf Hitler once wrote Mein Kampf), ex-Gunmaker Alfred Krupp denied a report that he passed the time making toy guns. The fact was that Krupp was using his twelve-year term to resume the trade of his ancestors; he had become a locksmith...
...also makes Hawaiian leis and paper party hats) brought out a pith helmet containing a tiny, concealed radio set with a single earphone. But the Buck Rogers buffs might prefer a football type helmet, which the American Junior Aircraft Co. of Portland, Ore. displayed at the 46th annual American Toy Fair. It carried a tone transmitter (see cut) which controls the steering of a glider airplane by sonic vibrations. A steady sound tone makes it fly straight, interruptions turn it alternately right and left (price: $25). The 10,000 U.S. retail buyers attending the toy fair did so much early...