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...Zippo Climbs Back. The horn sold well, and Marx was made a Strauss director. One day the directors discussed whether the company should continue to manufacture and sell in its four retail stores in New York or give up selling. Marx alone urged Strauss to get out of the retail field. Instead of getting rid of the stores, Strauss got rid of Marx...
...twelve and finished Fort Hamilton High in three years. At nights he pored over books "on how to become a $5,000-a-year man." After a short-lived job with a druggists' syndicate, Marx stumbled "by sheer happenstance" into an office-boy's job with Ferdinand Strauss, whose Zippo the Climbing Monkey and Alabama Coon Jigger (a clockwork minstrel) were the first mechanical toys mass-manufactured in the U.S. Within four years, Marx had been promoted to manage the company's East Rutherford, NJ. plant, and soon afterward he had his first idea for a toy. One of Strauss...
...Manhattan Toymaker Ferdinand Strauss, who is credited with making mechanical toys popular in the U.S. Within a year, Marx was head of a Strauss factory. He left to become a toy seller, and soon had enough money to buy Strauss's factories and his most successful mechanical toys-"Zippo the Climbing Monkey" and the "Alabama Coon Jigger," a tap-dancing minstrel. Most competitors thought these two items were finished. Marx proved them wrong: he sold 16 million. Now he has 14 factories spread from Erie. N.Y. to South Africa. Marx has the knack of picking "hot" new toys...
...vice president and European general manager, Pinkley averaged 200,000 miles a year, acquired a travel agent's memory for train and plane schedules. He also developed a fondness for playing with words, congratulating U.P. staffers for stories with plenty of "zoomo," "zippo" and "peppo." What did he think about the zoomo annex, its zippo presses and the prospects of a peppo afternoon paper? Said Pinkley blandly last week: "It's a highly rentable office building, you know...
...said New Jersey's Representative J. Parnell Thomas. Songsters agreed with him. They were grinding out 5? tunes with all the old zippo they could muster, but so far, no Over There. Recent 5? tunes...