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...toy, novelty, and handicraft industries had died of international boycott...
...over the U.S. that night hundreds of thousands of children to whom the Ranger had sent toy lariats, six-shooters, ten-gallon hats and bristling wild west mustaches, whom he had commissioned Rangers and pledged to good conduct and fair play, mourned the most adored character ever to be created on the U.S. air. Many an older listener mourned too. The New York Times sounded the following editorial requiem: The Lone Ranger, under that name, came into being in this generation for a radio public, but under various names he has been alive for many centuries. He was Ulysses, William...
Play. One way for the doctor to get in right with his unsuspecting little patients, and at the same time get the dope on them, is to play with them. Dr. Joseph C. Solomon of Baltimore is a great hand with small dolls, toy furniture, vehicles, etc., which he uses to set up family situations. If the patient is a little girl, the therapist provides her with a doll with which she unconsciously identifies herself. She makes the doll perform actions which she would not admit any notion of doing herself. One little girl made a toy streetcar run over...
Thus, about the only concrete fact that Bolles has to toy with is that out of last year's once beaten eight, Captain Fluff Stevens, Walt Kernan, Johnny Richards, and coxswain George Shortlege are missing. Returning lettermen include this year's captain, Shuff Gray, now engaged in hockey activities, Bruce Pirnie, Sam Goddard, Dick Fowler, and stroke Jack Wilson. In addition to these veterans there is a complete Jayvee boatload returning from last year. Also the 1943 shell, which left ten lengths of open water between it and the Elis returns almost intact...
...Four-and five-year-olds bit their bread into the shape of guns and played war at table, started bombing games whenever they got their hands on toy boats or planes, invariably became shrill and tense when they played at war. One child, during a game with blocks, proposed: "Let's give this lumber to the Germans so they won't bomb us." Another, defying his mother, exclaimed: "I am Hitler...