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...have done little to improve methods used before the war, when the U.S., with only twice as many workers, turned out 15 times as many cars. Compared with more powerful, lower-priced U.S. models, said Member Shawcross, the smallest current British model is "a joke, a glorified, expensive toy...
Tempers flared. Dewey sat up and pulled from his pocket a pair of toy Scotty dogs, which he placed on the conference table. Magnetized, they sprang together. Everybody laughed and Dewey slouched back. When sparks began to fly again, he broke in with a dirty story...
...Mistress Mine (by Terence Rattigan; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson) brought the Lunts back to Broadway for the first time in over three years. It did not bring them back in anything worth a toy locomotive's toot, but long before the curtain fell, the glittering first-night audience had ceased to care. The Lunts, as usual, had triumphed in themselves. They had once again proved their magic in vehicle jobs, in turning pushcarts into floats...
...afternoon quiet had settled in the dining room of Manhattan's Midston House. Ten-year-old Cornelius Kaehane pushed in, walked to the cashier's desk, took two plastic toy pistols out of the pockets of his shabby lumberjacket. He stared at the young woman with his dirty face full of furious purpose. Nothing happened. Infuriated, he slammed one of his pistols down on the desk and cried, ''This is a stickup." A look of mild annoyance crossed the cashier's face. Cornelius stood on tiptoe, grabbed two ten-dollar and two one-dollar bills...
...Parisian customs inspector who retired to paint leafy jungle fantasies, without ever having seen a jungle. Says Litwak of Rousseau: "Plenty to criticize, but all right." He prefers him to Pittsburgh's late John Kane, long considered the No. 1 U.S. primitive, who painted fussy toy trains and muscular self-portraits. Nowadays the field is crowded with such deliberate amateurs as upstate New York's 85-year-old "Grandma" Moses (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940) and fellow Brooklynite Morris Hirshfield, 73-year-old retired slipper manufacturer who paints nudes with bas-relief noses and lions with custom-tailored, button...