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Cried President Wallace Morgan, famed illustrator: "Photography in illustration is a new toy for both the public and the editors, whose disastrous results we are all feeling...
BRAVE MR. BUCKINGHAM - Dorothy Kunhardt - Harcourt, Brace ($1). A toy Indian made of Nugg could always say, in spite of calamities, "THAT DIDN'T HURT." Nonsense with a moral, for children (and adults) by the author of Junket Is Nice...
...bamboo poles which cost $1.25 each and sold them for $25 each. After this venture he went into the magic business, manufacturing sets of card tricks, false hats for jugglers and accessories for vaudeville magicians. Presently A. C. Gilbert thought up the idea of a child's construction toy which he called Erector; his company now sells 350,000 sets a year. At Yale, where he is on the Board of Athletic Control, A. C. Gilbert still has time to see that the vaulters get the best possible coaching and equipment. His New Haven home, in addition...
...next room toy airplanes are being demonstrated. What could be better for that fishing trip in Nova Scotia than a nice toy gilder? Here is another rifle range, bordered by sleeping wild beasts. Beyond, two very discouraged brown bears are trying to stare down their gaping audience...
Once called by his friends "the Jewish Hamlet," because of his lean, ascetic face, Mr. Nathan now boasts a growing waistline that causes him to toy with the idea of substituting sailing for such strenuous pastimes as fencing and tennis. He will no longer play the cello, for his professional cellist wife, Nancy Wilson, makes him embarrassed about his inferior skill...