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...widely in Britain, so plenty of that was hung up last week, but there was none of the usual mistletoe from France, and bussing went on without it. One daring London shop did a good business selling white satin nighties with green mistletoe appliqued. British moppets openly scorned peacetime toys as "sissy" and responsive British parents bought plenty of dolls togged in gas decontamination suits for little girls, plenty of toy war equipment for lads...
...occasion marked the latest tests of the Marines' newest fighting machine, no screwball toy but the result of seven years of trial & error by 325-pound Sportsman-Inventor Donald Roebling. Originally conceived by Wire Ropeman John A. Roebling as a vessel of mercy and rescue in time of flood, the Roebling-dubbed "Alligator" caught the eye of the Marines, ever watchful for inventions likely to simplify the basic (and most dangerous) maneuver of the Corps, i.e., landing on hostile shores...
...Lionel Corp. (toy trains) declared a 25? extra dividend, inspired Scripps-Howard Cartoonist Will Johnstone to suggest a way for bankrupt roads to get back in the money...
Professor Leach's cogent presentation of the case for militant aid cannot be disposed of so easily as Professor Elliott's childish toy-soldier complex. The Law Professor said that if England is defeated, the Nazis will penetrate South American via the barter route, following up economic with political infiltration, and setting up puppet regimes in state after state until the Panama Canal is threatened and the United States is left helpless, alone, and fatally vulnerable...
...rules, no pre-season practice. Their coaches are usually borrowed from basketball or track. Ken Loeffler, Yale coach for the past five years, was hired originally because of the basketball teams he turned out at Geneva College. His record with Yale basketballers is nothing to boast about, but his Toy Bulldog football teams have lost only six games in five years...