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Next Christmas, U.S. children will have to get along with 30-to-40% fewer toys than Santa Claus brought them last year. This was the sad conclusion of some 3,000 retail buyers who crowded together to stock up for Santa at the annual American Toy Fair in Manhattan last week...
...long as there are American officials who toy with the idea of beating the Axis by utilizing one Quisling after another, 'right up to the German frontiers' . . . we cannot be sure that there will be no more 'temporary expediency...
...Iraq, a toy shop of the 14th Century was unearthed. It was stocked with 400 tiny terra-cotta figures wearing Moslem soldier costumes...
...Riot Starts. A crowd of hooligans swarmed over Stamboul Street. A provocateur jumped on a traffic light, brandishing a club. He shouted, and out of the crowd came 30 men similarly armed. In an Armenian toy shop glass splintered. Bricks and clubs flew through the air, smashed other windows. Out of a radio store phonograph records came sailing high into the night. Jewelry stores, rug stores, department stores were quickly bled of all the goods that could be carried. Looters tore down the street in both directions as they got what they wanted...
Wells & Bel Geddes. Beyond Tri-Tactics real war-games buffs sail into the blue of their own inventions. As long ago as 1914 H. G. Wells, in Little Wars, told how he and his friends had played with toy cannon, soldiers, houses and mock terrain, a play war of "brisk little battles." In 1917 Hudson Maxim, the inventor and explosives expert, revealed with some disgust that he had been forced to redesign his own war game to include the new factor of airpower. A New Yorker profile of Norman Bel Geddes in 1941 noted...