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...Anna Roosevelt Boettiger carefully handed packers a toy horse and a U.S. flag which fluttered when plugged into a light socket-gifts from her father to her six-year-old son John...
...first Norris-concocted episode, aired this week, was in the sudsy tradition: teen-aged Barbara and young Steve toy with the idea of eloping to Hollywood, but Auntie Carol offers Barbara a trip to Manhattan instead. What...
...Francisco office is another of our men who wears the D.F.C. (As pilot of the "Puffing Hussy," he has gone on 51 bombing raids, once brought his crew safely home from an unescorted mission even though enemy fighters had shot away his landing gear. Only casualty was the toy elephant he carried as a mascot.) Second Lieut. N. Robert Drake of our newsstand department has the D.F.C. and the Air Medal with five Oak Leaf clusters (a bombardier, Drake was shot down over Sicily, captured by the Nazis - for 18 months now has been a prisoner of war in Germany...
...curious new chemical last week achieved something of a vogue as a social toy in Manhattan. Gadget-loving hosts introduced it at family gatherings; the Manhattan press ran feature stories; the New Yorker took notice. This entertaining material is a kind of putty which can be pulled and kneaded like taffy but has a surprising, unputty-like property-when rolled into a ball and dropped on a hard surface, it bounces...
Egypt's Tutankhamen collected walking sticks; Hermann Wilhelm Göring collects stag antlers. You can never tell what a collector is going to collect or why. A woman in Richmond avidly collects toy elephants- for the excellent reason that her name is Mrs. L. E. Fant. The ferocious Ferrante, King of Naples, was fond of collecting his political enemies, whom he had executed, stuffed and mounted, and kept tastefully arrayed in a special room in his palace...