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...Yogi & the Commissar. Andrei Gromyko is an almost perfect neo-paleolithic specimen. When the Communist Party hacked its bloody way to power in 1917, Gromyko was eight years old. He, like millions with him and after him, never had a toy, a dream, a book or an ideal that was not somehow tinged by the penetrating hue of Communist dogma. That such men exist, that they occupy positions of power is one of the most important facts in today's world. Gromyko does not belong in the category of the commissars of the 1920s, who were far more imaginative...
...Chester Gould's comic-strip improbables, was smashing all sales records. Sales reached 15,100 (at $6 per head) in the first ten days, were expected to exceed $1,000,000 in retail value by Christmas. "Simply phenomenal," said the doll's proud parent, the Ideal Novelty & Toy Co., Inc. "It appears that sales of this one doll in the five remaining months of the year will exceed the output of the entire doll industry for any year in the past two decades...
People in Grand Tower had been sandbagging their inadequate levee since April. As the river rose they speeded up their work. While children helped their elders fill sandbags with toy shovels, and every able-bodied citizen lugged the bags to the levee, the river kept rising. Suddenly, everybody knew Grand Tower was going to have a "duck drownder." People stacked furniture in upper stories, took cattle and chickens to the high pasture near the cemetery, and waited "for her to blow." At dusk one night last week, she blew...
...parade turned out to be organized. Most of it was people, just sauntering along. The tide of Russia's human power flowed by, mothers walking hand-in-hand with little girls & boys, fathers with still smaller children perched on their shoulders. There were kids tugging at toy balloons...
Very cleverly disguised in the June 9 issue of TIME was the story of "handsome Mel Johnson, inventor of the Johnson semiautomatic rifle and machine gun," whose latest contribution to the peace of the world is a "toy" gun which shoots pellets...