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...Detroit Police Commissioner Harry S. Toy ordered copies of all comic books on sale brought to his desk because he had discovered, he said, that some comics were "loaded with Communist teachings, sex, and racial discrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 26, 1948 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...plush toy rabbit, drams of perfume, clothing, and a few out-of-term textbooks will go on the block today at Signature's spring auction sale in Radcliffe Yard. Bidding on all goods will start at 11 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Signature Auction | 4/15/1948 | See Source »

...Paris, sidewalk cafés were lined with customers sipping aperitifs or spooning sweetened ices; children sailed toy boats in the stone-rimmed pond of the Luxembourg Gardens. In Italy, peasant women remarked on the number of hens laying two eggs a day; perhaps it was the warm weather. And in Western Germany, after one of the wettest and greyest winters in 20 years, the sun was shining again, fitfully, but shining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Europe in the Spring | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...York toy manufacturer offered a doll which, when patted, burped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Mickey ("Toy Bulldog") Walker, 46, who used to be middleweight and welterweight champion of the world, won the job of sports editor of the Police Gazette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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