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The Best Photos, Comics & Puzzles from The Past!
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IN THIS ISSUE
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Toys
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YOUR favorite
toys?
in
the
Games and toys
from days gone by
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In This Issue:
4 Who’s That Star?
This star arose from the most
humble of beginnings to dominate
the world of miniature fashion.
7 Toy Parade
A look at some great toys from
down the years.
24 Simple Toys, Creative Kids
The best toys are 10 percent toy and 90 percent kid.
26 Classic Toy Fails
Here are some of the worst toys ever conceived. What were
they thinking?
28 True Crime: The Clue of the Curious
January 2015 • Vol. 7, No. 1
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ReMIND magazine • Vol 7, Issue 1 • 3
From the Editor
Toys In
The Attic
Do you ever
wonder what
happened to
all those toys
you used to
play with? I
can’t remember
giving or
throwing any
away, but not
a single one
survived my
childhood.
What happened to my Legos and Tinker Toys? Or that toy
snub-nosed .38 revolver that I used when play-acting James
Bond? What about my Matchbox Carry Case Car City, and all
of the Matchbox cars I filled it with?
Where did all those science toys go — the chemistry set my
mom made me keep in the basement, the microscope and
dissecting tools, those specimens in jars of vile-smelling
formaldehyde? (Such critters I don’t mind losing.)
What happened to the games — my James Bond board
game, my brother’s Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots, the Monopoly
game, or Risk? Whatever happened to Operation?
When I think about it (and I don’t very often), it seems my
entire childhood was invested in those fleeting after-school
amusements, and now they’re gone. Or would be — if it
weren’t for the memories we share here.
This issue of ReMIND searches out all those toys that surely
must be tucked away in attic spaces somewhere. Let’s have
some fun digging them back up!
David Cohea
ReMIND editor
([email protected])
Celebrity
Birthdays
Jan. 1, 1938 Frank Langella
Jan. 2, 1947 Jack Hanna
Jan. 5, 1931 Robert Duvall
Jan. 6, 1913 Loretta Young
Jan. 7, 1957 Katie Couric
Jan. 9, 1935 - Bob Denver
Jan. 13, 1935 - Rip Taylor
Jan. 14, 1919 - Andy Rooney
Jan. 17, 1922 - Betty White
Jan. 19, 1946 - Dolly Parton
Jan. 22, 1959 - Linda Blair
Jan. 25, 1938 - Etta James
Jan. 28, 1936 - Alan Alda
Jan. 29, 1945 Tom Selleck
Jan. 30, 1937 Vanessa Redgrave
Jan. 31, 1921 Carol Channing
Who’s That Star?
Can you
guess the
identity of
the star
featured in
this
photograph?
Look for the answer on page 23.
4 • ReMIND magazine • Vol 7, Issue 1
Re
tro
T oy s
At ti c
IN
T HE
C
R
CROSS
I Criss Cross is a themed word search
Using the clues, locate the
S puzzle.
word on the puzzle grid. One has
S been placed to get you started.
4 LETTERS
Ball
Clue
Sled
Yoyo
5 LETTERS
G.I. Joe
Jacks
Kazoo
6 LETTERS
C L U E
Barbie
Cap gun
Go Fish
Ray Gun
Skates
Slinky
7 LETTERS
Bicycle
Crayons
Play-Doh
Records
8 LETTERS
Baby doll
Hula hoop
Monopoly
Red wagon
Toy piano
Train set
Tricycle
9 LETTERS
Comic book
Cowboy hat
Harmonica
Teddy bear
Wooden bat
10 LETTERS
Boondoggle
Erector set
Tinkertoys
Tonka truck
View-Master
11 LETTERS
Balsa glider
Fingerpaint
Lincoln Logs
Matchbox car
Spinning top
Tiddlywinks
12 LETTERS
Baseball mitt
Jack in the box
Jigsaw puzzle
Pick-up sticks
Record player
Rocking horse
Wooden blocks
© 2015 NTVB Media
Puzzle answer on page 43.
Tidbits
.Hollywood
MGM and Paramount Pictures are
remaking the classic 1959 film BenHur, which won Charlton Heston
an Oscar. Boardwalk Empire star
Jack Huston, grandson of John
Huston and nephew of Anjelica
Huston, will play Judah, a.k.a. BenHur. The script, by John Ridley (12
Years a Slave) and Keith Clarke, is
based on the 1880 novel Ben-Hur:
A Tale of the Christ. You can bet the
$359 million grosses of Noah, with
Russell Crowe, prompted this
reboot.
John Wayne was known as “The
Duke” for his entire career. Now
John Wayne Enterprises is suing
Duke University because the school
thinks it owns the title to all things
named “Duke.” The Wayne family
claims that, “Duke does not own
the word ‘Duke’ in all contexts
and for all purposes.” It contends
that the North Carolina university
believes products bearing John
Wayne’s world-renowned image
and signature will somehow be
confused as being associated with
Duke University.
Case in point: “Duke” brand
Kentucky bourbon whiskey.
The bottle is imprinted with
“Monument Valley Distillers,” and
John Wayne’s image and signature
are prominently featured on the
label, along with the image of a
shotgun casing. The university
doesn’t market or sell alcohol, but
it objects to ANYTHING sold with
the name “Duke.” We checked with
a lawyer, who said, “If they don’t
use the name ‘Duke University,’ the
By Tony Rizzo
Charlton
Heston as
Ben-Hur
Wayne family is not infringing on
their name.”
Despite his recent marriage,
George Clooney is still stirring
things up. He’ll take on Rupert
Murdock (owner of the Fox
Network) when he directs Hack
Attack, an adaptation of journalist
Nick Davies’ book about “The News
of the World.” Murdock’s British
newspaper was at the root of
the voicemail hacking scandal of
politicians, celebrities, even murder
victims and terrorist survivors. The
paper’s former editor was sent to
prison, and Murdock closed down
the 168-year-old tabloid.
Barbra Streisand said in a recent
interview that she would only star
in the classic film Gypsy this year.
She said, “I began my film career in
Funny Girl and it only seems fitting
to end it with Gypsy.” Her love
interest, Herbie, could be played by
her husband, James Brolin. If there
has to be nepotism ... keep it in the
family!
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Butter Molds
Q:
At a farm auction several years ago, I
bought three butter molds that were
obviously quite old. Each has a pattern, with
the most elaborate depicting a cluster of roses.
Are these collectible? — Emporia, Va.
A:
It was during the reign of Charles II in
Britain that decorating butter became
popular. In America, this practice thrived due
in no small part to farm wives who marked the
homemade butter they sold so it would be readily
identified as their product. No two farms used the
same mold in the same county or area. The more
detailed the pattern of a mold, the more expensive
it can be. For example, a rare Amish hexagon mold
with intricate pattern of acorns and oak leaves
recently sold for $650 at auction. Most, however,
sell in the $50 to $75 range.
Q:
I have a silk scarf that I acquired when
I was in college during the 1970s. It
features a Peter Max design and was rarely
worn. Is it worth keeping? — Susan, Rio
Rancho, N.M.
A:
Peter Max is the quintessential pop artist
who has been creating collectibles since
the 1960s. He symbolizes the hippie era and
sponsored the first psychedelic show in New York
in 1995. Most collectors are especially interested
in Max items produced before 1975. Your scarf is
probably valued in the $50 to $75 range. I base this
on recent Internet sales.
Q:
I have a pennant with an image of
Dwight Eisenhower and the words
“We Still Like Ike.” It is obviously from his
re-election campaign in 1956. Is it collectible?
— Sarah, Homestead, Fla.
A:
Your pennant would retail in the $25
to $40 range, according to “Warman’s
Political Collectibles: Identification and Price
Guide,” by Enoch L. Nappen (Krause Books).
Collecting political memorabilia remains one of
America’s favorite hobbies.
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ATTIC:
A parade of vintage toys
If you could retrieve a favorite toy from a box that got lost up in the attic
years ago, what would it be? Would it be a toy you played with others,
or something you spent hours with alone? Were you fascinated, amused
or simply entertained? What memories of childhood come back to you
when you think of it?
Here are some classic toys from down the decades — some the
best things found under a Christmas tree, others quite cheap.
But really, price was never important — all a kid needed was a little bit of
toy and a lot of imagination.
Do you remember these gems?
Life
Hasbro’s The Game of Life was a
1960 reissue of the 100-year-old The
Checkered Game of Life. Art Linkletter
was spokesman for the game in 1960
and his image appears on the $100,000
bills.
“I can't
believe he
knocked
his block
off!”
Rock’em
Sock’em
Robots
One of the most popular toys of the 1960s
was Rock’em Sock’em Robots. Two players
worked the gears of dueling robots, vying for
that winning punch that knocks the head off
its opponent. Hundreds of thousands of these
guys were sold over the years.
Toy Kitchen
Nothing like practicing for the real
deal with your own toy kitchen.
This one, featured in a 1976 Sears
catalog, offered all the modern faux
conveniences for stylish young girls.
Quotable
“Quotes”
You may recall the humorous
observation by George Carlin,
“Some people see things that are
and ask, why? Some people dream
of things that never were and ask,
why not? Some people have to go to
work and don’t have time for all of
that.”
But do
you recall
these
additional
quotes
from Mr.
Carlin?
“
”
TOYS
in
the
“Inside every cynical person,
there is a disappointed idealist.”
“Have you ever noticed
that anyone driving slower
than you is an idiot, and
everyone going faster than
you is a maniac?”
“I went to the bookstore
and asked the saleswoman,
‘Where’s the self-help section?’
She said if she told me, it
would defeat the purpose.”
“I was thinking about
how people seem to read
the Bible a whole lot more
as they get older; then it
dawned on me – they’re
cramming for their final
exam.”
Classic TV & Film
Catching
Up With:
Brooke Shields
This
Month ’ s Movies
Worth Watching
Again
The Odd Couple (1968) Two friends, both divorced, decide to share
an apartment, despite the fact that their personalities are wildly different.
Felix (Jack Lemmon) is a neurotic neat freak, and Oscar (Walter
Matthau) is a fun-loving slob. Also stars John Fiedler. Based on a play
by Neil Simon and later made into a television series in the 1970s.
Jan. 2 at 8pm ET on TCM
A Raisin in the Sun (1961) Based on a play written by Lorraine
Hansberry, this drama follows a black family struggling with poverty,
racism and personal challenges as they seek a better way of life. Stars
Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil and Ruby Dee.
Jan. 14 at 9:45pm ET on TCM
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning
novel provided the inspiration
for this classic film — widely
considered one of the greatest ever
made — starring Gregory Peck as
a small-town lawyer who defends
a black man against an undeserved
rape charge. Watch for Robert
Duvall as the reclusive Boo Radley.
Your mother supported your career from a very young
age. Did she always want you to be a star?
Brooke Shields: It was this bizarre, gradual process. By
chance, I got a job as a baby model. We started to make
money, and that was more of an income than my mom was
able to make working part time at a bookstore or at Lord &
Taylor or wherever she was working, so it became this path
that we were both on together, and it was fun and it opened
up a whole life for us.
All the President’s Men (1976)
Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob
Woodward uncover the details of the Watergate scandal, which
eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974.
Stars Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford and Jack Warden.
Can you name the TV Series?
This Dynamic
Duo is out to
fight crime in
Gotham City.
Answer:
Batman
By Gerry Strauss
She was America’s
sweetheart, even
while sparking
controversy with her
films (she played an
underage hooker
in her first major
role), her TV ads (she redefined the concept of snug-fitting
jeans in more than one TV commercial), and her uberpublic relationships (her bond with Michael Jackson made
headlines all over the world). For Brooke Shields, getting
the public’s attention is just another day at work, and for
over four decades, she’s done it without a hint of difficulty
or regret. Her latest book, There Was a Little Girl, is about the
most cherished part of her life: her relationship with her
mother Teri. We caught up with Brooke and reflected on her
untouchable career.
Your mom was such a huge part of your early life and
career. What types of sacrifices did she make in order to
support you?
It was less glamorous for my mother than you’d think,
because we were getting up at 5 in the morning on these
trips and we were working 16-hour days during the summer.
It was just a very different type of life, so I really can’t look at
it as a sacrifice. I have no recollection of not liking it.
From your role as a child prostitute in 1978’s Pretty Baby
to your famous Calvin Klein ads, you’ve been involved in
a lot of provocative projects throughout your career. Do
you think you were consciously looking for controversy?
No. I’ve got to be honest. I wish I had that type of foresight.
I’d love to say we had a plan and it was charted out and then
we navigated, but if you really look at the whole body of my
career, it is not ... there’s nothing charted. There is no rhyme
or reason to any of it.
TV, films, Broadway: You’ve pretty much done it all, but
what is something that you still want to do that you have
yet to do?
I think I just want more of what I’ve done that I’ve liked. I
eventually want to do a one-woman show on Broadway. I
absolutely miss being on television, like a television show,
in a world that I go to every day and work hard for, and just
being comedic.
1977
The doors to New York City’s Studio 54 nightclub
opened for the first time, George Lucas’ Star Wars
premiered in theaters and the world mourned the
passing of “The King,” Elvis Presley. The year was
1977 and the following TV series were the Top 10.
1.
Laverne & Shirley
2.
Happy Days
3.
Three’s Company
4.
60 Minutes
5.
Charlie’s Angels
6.
All in the Family
7.
Little House on the Prairie
8.
Alice
9.
M*A*S*H
10.
One Day at a Time
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Disney Songs
For the past 70-plus years,
Disney movies have been
contributing catchy tunes to
our popular culture. Here are
part of the lyrics to several
classic Disney songs. Can you
name the movie from which
each comes?
”
1. “Someday my prince will come ...”
2. “Oh, this is the night, it’s a beautiful
night, and we call it Bella Notte ...”
3. “Love is a song that never ends ...”
4. “Everybody wants to be a cat, because a
cat’s the only cat who knows where it’s
at ...”
5. “Look for the bare necessities, the
simple bare necessities, forget about
your worries and your strife ...”
6. “Baby mine, don’t you cry. Baby mine,
dry your eye ...”
7. “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay.
My, oh, my what a wonderful day ...”
8. “I know you, I walked with you once
upon a dream ...”
9. “When you wish upon a star, makes no
difference who you are ...”
10. “Cruella De Vil, Cruella De Vil. If she
doesn’t scare you no evil thing will ...”
A. The Aristocats (1970)
B. Lady and the Tramp
F. Song of the South
(1955)
C. The Jungle Book
(1967)
D. Dumbo (1941)
E. Sleeping Beauty
(1959)
G. Snow White and the
(1946)
Seven Dwarfs (1937)
H. Pinocchio (1940)
I. Bambi (1942)
J. 101 Dalmatians (1961)
1.G 2.B 3.I 4.A 5.C 6.D 7.F 8.E 9.H 10.J
Rated
Retro:
And I
Quote …
Trivia
T o ys
in The Att ic
By Sherie Sprague
Trivia Quiz
Dire Straits
1. Name the group that released “Good
Times.”
2. Which band had hits with “19th
Nervous Breakdown” and “Mother’s
Little Helper”? Name the year.
3. Which group had a U.S. and U.K. hit
with “The Boys Are Back in Town” in
1976?
4. Which group released “Sultans of
Swing,” and when?
5. Name the one-hit wonder that had a hit
with “Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’”
6. Which all-girl Go-Go’s song mentions
dances called the Pony and the Watusi?
1. Chic had a No. 1 hit with the song in
1979. The group’s C’est Chic album also
included the 1978 hit “Le Freak.”
2. The Rolling Stones, both in 1966.
3. Thin Lizzy, on their Jailbreak album. The
song has since been covered by others,
including Bon Jovi.
4. Dire Straits, in 1978 in the U.K. The song
didn’t chart until it was re-released six
months later in the U.S. Then it rose to
the Top Ten charts in both countries.
5. Crazy Elephant, in 1969.
6. “We Got the Beat,” released in 1980. The
song was used in the movie Fast Times at
Ridgemont High. With a length of only
2:32, it was considered short for a dance
song.
1. What was the original name of Chutes and Ladders?
2. Name the first toy to be advertised on television.
3. How many phrases did the original Chatty Cathy speak?
4.What was the only year the rear-loading Beach Bomb was
produced?
5. What is toyetic?
6. How many leg parts came in the original Cootie game?
7. What was the first movie based on a toy?
8. Which came first: roller skates with wheels or inline skates?
9.What were “Xray Spex,” the “Remote-Controlled Ghost,”
“Sea Monkeys” and the “Ventrilo Voice Thrower”?
10.
How many action figures were in the original G.I. Joe
lineup?
11. How many answers were inside a Magic 8 ball?
12. Where did LEGO get its name?
13. How did the diving submarine toy work?
14. What goes on at Babyland General Hospital?
15. What does NERF stand for?
by Samantha Weaver
• You might be surprised to learn that the U.S. state that is closest to
Africa is Maine.
• During the filming of the classic film The Wizard of Oz, the dog that
played Toto was paid $125 per week. In contrast, the actors who played
the munchkins were paid $100 per week — and their manager, Leo
Singer, kept half of that.
•
In Western medicine in the 19th century, experts believed in a
phenomenon called “maternal impressions,” which posited that what
a pregnant woman looked at could influence the appearance of her
child. This belief set off a rush of pregnant Parisian women heading
to the Louvre to gaze at the lovely artworks, hoping to give birth to
attractive babies.
• You might think that hot dogs are a relatively recent food offering,
but you’d be wrong. The first sausages were created more than 3,500
years ago when ancient Babylonians began stuffing spiced meat into
the intestines of animals.
• Half of first-time marriages in Kentucky involve teenagers.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The old believe everything; the middle-aged
suspect everything; the young know everything.” —Oscar Wilde
ACROSS
1
1969 to 1971 toy-
based cartoon, __
Wheels
4 Fireplace shelf
7“Phooey!”
11Rock of __ (Samson’s
biblical refuge)
13The left one of #41Across was bionic
14Earth goddess of
ancient Greece,
variantly
15 Mythical Hun king
16 Tenn. neighbor
17Rubik’s Cube inventor
Mr. Rubik
18 The Six Million __ Man
20Filled
22
My __ Pony (‘80s
cartoon about Hasbro
toys)
24 Toys holder
26Highlander
28 Hi-__ graphics
29 Jeff Lynne’s gr.
30 ‘Dino’ suffix
31Island country in the
Indian Ocean, to the
IOC
32 Angel’s hat
33Ohio __ Company
(Etch A Sketch maker)
34 __ _ premium
35 ‘Musket’ suffixes
36Stop-_-__
37DC Comics based
1960s show
39
Li’l __, Al Capp comical
character
41#18-Across
BY KELLY ANN BUCHANAN
TOYS IN
THE ATTIC
©2014 NTVB Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
merchandise, Colonel
Steve __ action figure
45“Here _ __, there...”: Bit
of the famous farm
tune
46 Gibraltar, e.g.
48Knight’s heraldic
wreath
49 Hobby shop items
50 Garden pond fish
51 At no time, in verse
52 Besides that
53“__-hoo!”
54 Bouncy check acronym
DOWN
1 Mr. Potato __
2Sgt. Snorkel’s comic
strip dog
3 Like a ship in a bottle
4 Deck of cards symbol
5 Olive of comics
6Mrs. __ (Buffy’s toy on
Family Affair)
7“_ __ to go first this
time!” (Board game
player’s exclamation)
8One of a plush toy on
an ‘80s cartoon series:
2 wds.
9 Mattel males: 2 wds.
10Former NBAer, __ Ming
12Police series that
spawned a board
game, Barney __
19 Garlic, in Paris
21 Bronze Roman money
23Sweet __ (Sno-Cone,
for one)
25 Tic-Tac-Toe losing line
26Evil wizard on The
Smurfs
27Decepticons were their
enemies on 1984
to 1987 animated
action series
Transformers
30 __ Francisco
31Milton Bradley game
about the TV crimefighting duo, __ &
Hutch
32 Muppets creator Jim
34Mr. Vigoda of #12Down
35 Parisian water
38Super __ Bros.
(Nintendo video game)
40 #1-Down accessory
42 Train, in Spain
43 Islands: French
44 Spongy toys brand
45 Peer Gynt’s mother
47Also
Those Fabulous ’50s
Baseball Paraphernalia
✤ WORD
SLEUTH
1
1959
Find the listed words in the diagram. They run in all
directions – forward, backward, up, down and diagonally.
“No, Harry, I don’t know where your other skate is,
and furthermore, I couldn't care less...”
Ball
Cap
Jacket
Bat
Cleats JerseySocks
Batting glove
Glove
Pants
Belt
Helmet
Pine tar
• Dirty candles can be cleaned up quickly with a leg of
pantyhose. Slip the candle in the hose, rub the outside of
the candle and release.
• When I need to dust the ceiling, I don’t have a fancy
contraption; I just use my broom. If you have popcorn
ceilings, you can rubber-band a feather duster to the end
of your broom. — JoAnn
• “Rub banana on CDs with scratches. Wipe excess off
with a soft towel, and make sure all of the banana is gone
before you put it in your player. It usually does the trick
for me.” — T.E. in Maine
• “When heater season is in full effect — like now — I
keep a spray bottle of water, to which I add 2 tablespoons
of liquid fabric softener. I spritz the house from time to
time, and it will add humidity as well as a pleasant scent.”
— M.A. in Ohio
• “Disposable razors can be used to remove burrs from
sweaters or wool slacks.” — O.D. in Tennessee
Shin guard
Spikes
TOTYTSIC :
A
in
th e
Reeling
Years By Lucie M. Winborne
’50s Trivia
Go-Hi Toss Glider
Testor opened shop for the model-kit industry in 1929, principally
selling model cement. During World War II, when chemicals
were tightly controlled for the war effort, Testor turned to other
products, producing inexpensive flying models produced from
balsa. This “Go-Hi” toss glider issued in 1948 is an example of the
original design, featuring great graphics, a nicely printed box
and a “warm” tone to the balsa-wood construction — all for just
10 cents. What kid wouldn’t love it?
1.
What tragic real-life object inspired Elvis
Presley’s first No. 1 hit, “Heartbreak Hotel”?
2.
What was the original name of presidential
retreat Camp David?
3.Time Magazine called these “don’t give a damn
pills” when they hit the market in the mid-’50s.
4.
Before he was immortalized as Captain
Kangaroo, what role was Bob Keeshan known
for?
5. Who graced the cover of the first TV Guide?
6.Name the company headed by Joan Crawford’s
husband, Alfred Steele.
7.
How many years did Ford’s ill-fated Edsel
automobile last on the market?
8.In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Tibet for this
country.
9.Which of these teams was not the result of a
change of cities in the ’50s? A) Los Angeles
Dodgers; B) San Francisco Giants; C) Houston
Astros
10.This fitness tool developed by Jack LaLanne
was the first elastic band used for resistance
training.
1960
“What are you getting for your birthday that
your folks promised you wouldn’t get?”
❉ JOSEPH
CROSSWORD
1
Howdy Doody’s T.V. Game
Howdy Doody was the king of children’s TV shows in the ’50s.
Merchandising opportunities of the show were endless —
Howdy appeared on everything from watches to salt-andpepper sets. The Milton Bradley board game first sold in 1951
was straight-ahead fare for fans of the show who wanted most
to be there — the game was set in the TV studio. A game in mint
condition is worth now around $100.
ACROSS
1 Gladiator star
6Passion
10Red Square
name
11Paper
amount
12Lower
13 Goads on
14 Team animal
15Gadget
protector
16Wield
17Painter
Vermeer
18Devilfish
19 Racing bet
22 Put away
23 Tops tortes
26Tapering
cigar
29 Yak it up
32 Put down
7 Swiss peak
8 Game setting
9Irritable
11Count
15Lobbying
grp.
17 Ring vendors
20Dandy
21 Tennis feat
24 Solar event
25Represses
27Squealer
28Minks’
cousins
DOWN
29 Try to get
1 Stop talking
30 Pedro’s pal
2Picture
puzzles
31Sleigh
sounders
3Ready for
battle
35Dregs
4Sage
36Practice for a
bout
5 Compass pt.
387-Down, for
6Damaged
one
3Ignited
3
34Breakfast
choice
36 Make finer
37Target of an
audit
38 Bobbing goal
39Eyeballs
40CD player
part
41
Friends
character
42Iron
❈ KING
from page 13
Reeling
Years
’50s Trivia Answers
1.A 1955 suicide note left by a Miami man,
containing the line, “I walk a lonely street.”
The song’s writers penned the tune in half an
hour and incorporated the line into its first
verse.
2. Shangri-La.
3. Anti-anxiety tranquilizers.
4.Clarabell on “Howdy Doody.”
5.Lucille Ball and her
Ford’s Edsel.
new son.
6.Pepsi Cola.
7.Only
three.
8. India.
9.C. The
Astros
were
formed in 1962, but
both the Dodgers and the Giants moved to
California from New York.
10.The Glamour Stretcher.
ACROSS
1Duchamp’s art
movement
5 Uncooked
8 Remain
12 Tel —
13 Blackbird
14 Vagrant
15 Downhill racer
17Follow the
rules
18 Follow
19Food fish also
called mahi
mahi
21 Coagulate
24 Year-end abbr.
25 Familiar folks
28Actress
Campbell
30Letterman’s
network
33 Id counterpart
34 Farm statistic
35 Erstwhile acorn
36San Francisco’s
— Hill
37 Ms. Moore
38 Wan
CROSSWORD
1
9
3
41
43
46
50
51
54
55
56
57
58
59
1 Vacillate
1
16 Solidify
20 Keatsian works
22 Formerly
23Contract
details
25 Author Follett
26Billy Joel’s “—
to Extremes”
27Vessels that
resemble stout
men
29 Bridal cover
31 Scrooge’s cry
32 Firmament
34 Hebrew month
38Exploitative
one
40 Pack animals
42 lndivisible
43 Throat clearer
44 Pedestal part
45 Engrave
47Toothpaste
holder
48 Walked on
49 Longings
52 Discovery call
53 Ginormous
Singer Sumac
No neatnik
Urge earnestly
Eccentric
Tow
Admittedly
Advantage
Actor McBride
Black, in verse
Tree hugger?
Glutton
Ohio nine
DOWN
1Cornerstone
info
2Shakespeare’s
river
3 Firsties
4 Acknowledge
5Scott Joplin’s
music
6Ortiz of Ugly
Betty
7Kite flyer’s
need
8 Coast
9 Shag et al.
10 Sleeping
1951
“Knock some of the paint off. Then your
mother will HAVE to buy it.”
Unscramble these twelve letter strings to form each into an
ordinary word (ex. H A G N E C becomes CHANGE). Prepare
to use only ONE word from any marked ( ♥ ) letter string as
each unscrambles into more than one word (ex. ♥ R A T H E
becomes HATER or EARTH or HEART). Fit each string’s word
either across or down to knot all twelve strings together.
1958
❉ JOSEPH
ACROSS
1Beat at the
board
6 Argo skipper
11 Century plant
12 Radiate
13 Small dogs
14Sight from
Everest
15 Puts up
17 Blond shade
19Singer
Orbison
20 — di dah
23 Oscillate
25 Verdi classic
26Neil Young
song
28 Grand Ole —
29Speechwriter Peggy
30 Fast flier
31 Part of HRH
CROSSWORD 2
2 Wallop
3
33Miss
Congeniality
director
Donald
35 Spiral shape
38 Pass
41 Stand
42 Concur
43Spanish
snacks
44 Admit
DOWN
1 Tourist’s aid
2Epoch
3 Cheer up
4 At any time
5Mormon
state
6Wharf
7Line of
symmetry
8 Long lunch?
9Exalted
poem
10 Surfing site
16 Tiara’s kin
17Friend of
D’Artagnan
18Oozes
20 Brave person
21Loser to
Dwight
22 Went without
24Essay
25 In the past
27Actually
31Spells
33 Tower setting
34Playwright
William
35Topper
36Period
37Sassiness
39 Corp. bigwig
40 Decimal base
Retro
Sleuth
Year
1984
One of the hottest toys of Christmas 1984 was actually a galaxy of
toys: the next installment of Masters of the Universe, also known
as He-Man. Created by Mattel, Masters of the Universe was a media
behemoth that included four animated television series, comic
books, a movie and gazillions of action figures. The main idea
was that He-Man and his forces were engaged in eternal combat
against the evil Skeletor and his boys. Starting in 1982, each year a
whole line of action figures was released, with 1984 seeing such
characters as Thunder Punch and Roboto come to the aid of HeMan, with Skeletor getting help from Dragon Blaster and Stinkor.
INSTRUCTIONS: Each “case” has six clues.
The challenge is to solve each case with as few clues as possible.
Case 1:
Between Machines
1. Action toy
2. “More than meets the eye”
3.Two toys for the price of
one
4. Shiftable toy parts
5. Is it a car? Animal? Jet?
6. It’s a “robot in disguise”
Case 2:
It’s For You
1. Love song
2. Stevie Wonder
3.Featured in The Woman
In Red
4. Oscar for Best Original Song
5. About a phone call
6.“No chocolate candy hearts
to give away”
© 2014 NTVB Media, Inc.
Case 3:
Chickens Were
Relieved
1.Punchline
2. TV ad
3. Has become a catchphrase
4. Wendy’s fast food chain
5. Too much bread
6. Not enough meat
Case 4:
What Is A Host?
1. Quizmaster from Canada
2.Becomes TV game show
host
3.Replaces Art Fleming
in 1984
4.Asks contestants general
knowledge questions
5.Answers must be in the
form of a question
6. Takes over as Jeopardy host
Case 5:
Junkyard Doggies
1.Popular plush stuffed
animal
2. Floppy ears, droopy eyes
3.Heart-shaped emblem near
tail
4.Dog dolls with adoption
papers
5.Comes inside a doghouse
box
6.Tagline:“Loveable
Huggable”
Case 6:
Eden In A Box
1. High-tech for sale
2. A “toy” that costs $2,495
3. Fits on a desk
4.Famous commercial for it
aired during Super Bowl XVIII
5. Introduced by Steve Jobs
6. Symbolized by an apple
Puzzle answers on page 44.
Those Outta Sight ’60s
HERE IS A PLEASANT LITTLE GAME that will give you
a message every day. It’s a numerical puzzle designed
to spell out your fortune. Count the letters in your ﬁrst
name. If the number of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4.
If the number is less than 6, add 3. The result is your key
number. Start at the upper left-hand corner and check one
of your key numbers, left to right. Then read the message
the letters under the checked ﬁgures give you.
1965
❉ JOSEPH
ACROSS
1Strapped
6
Wheel of
Fortune host
11Ran
12 Not obtuse
13 Last letter
14 “Beau —”
15 Perfect rating
16Govt. org.
that pays
seniors
18Badge
material
19Wail
20 Diarist Anaïs
21 Bar rocks
22Sounded
owlish
24Distantly
25Nickname of
Aethelred
27Brusque
29 Shop holders
32Cigar
remnant
CROSSWORD 3
3Crony
3
34Affirmative
vote
35 Grant’s foe
36Live
37 Isr. neighbor
38 Jacob’s father
40Overhead
42Pitching
choice
43Dance party
attendee
44Chose
45Loses
DOWN
1 Irregular spot
2
Dawn of the
Dead director
3Madonna
song
4Beer bash
need
5 Lou Grant star
6
Cosmos
author
7 Deck topper
8Madonna
song
9New York
prison
10 More cutting
17Cocktail
made with
brandy and
lemon
23 Blasting stuff
24Nabokov
novel
26Very
attentive
27 Cotton cloth
28Depletes
30Irritated
31Cavalry
weapons
33Showed
nervousness
39 Blvd. kin
41 Scrooge cry
Reeling
TOTYTSIC :
A
in
th e
’60s Trivia
1.This book by Rachel Carson is considered the
“embryo for the Environmental Movement.”
2.This classic sports-car model was introduced by
Chevrolet in 1966.
3.What U.S. city was the center of 1967’s “Summer
of Love”?
4.
These three neighboring states battled Israel
during the Six Days War.
5.
Street in London that housed independent
fashion boutiques and designers.
6.He won the most Oscars for Best Director in the
’60s.
7.
The 1963 holiday classic cowritten by Phil
Spector has been covered by artists from U2 to
the pop trio Hansen.
8.Name the ancient literature that inspired Pete
Seeger’s controversial folk song “Turn! Turn!
Turn!”
9.Worldwide dance craze that debuted on The Dick
Clark Show.
10.
The “Tammy” doll, inspired by the movie
character made popular by Debbie Reynolds,
had a little sister. What was her name?
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Hippos like marbles! That’s the concept of this 1978 game in which
two to four players control the jaws of plastic wallowers and try to
gobble as many marbles as possible. TV commercials showed a
line of colored cartoon hippos dancing in a conga line and singing,
“Hungry Hungry Hip-pos!”
1960
“I know you work hard for your money, but not
any harder than I’m working right now.”
ACROSS
1
Tampa Bay
player, for
short
4
Islands near
Galway
8
“This —
recording”
9
Philippine
island
0 Trounced
1
12Remove a
stripe
13 Ahab was one
15Full of
affection
18Cry from 13
Across
19 Last night
20Small, long-
haired dogs,
for short
21 Deli bread
DOWN
1
Puppeteer
Baird
2
Dos Passos
trilogy
3
Ginger’s
cousin
4 Shrewdness
5
Newspaper
staffer
6 Partner of aid
7
Staircase
descender?
11Passes the
baton
13Outer
covering
14“Verrry
funny! ”
16Campus
creeper
17 $100 bill
Those Outta Sight ’60s
❉ JOSEPH
CROSSWORD 4
TOTYTSIC :
in
th e
A
Viewmaster 3D
Stereo Viewer
Viewmaster Stereoscopes had been around since the late ’30s,
but in 1966 the maker began releasing viewers with fewer scenic
and more child-friendly subjects, including Disney classics like
Cinderella and Snow White, and TV series like Batman, The Man
From U.N.C.L.E. and even Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. You could
get a self-light viewer for $3.50 or a low-tech hold-it-up-to-alight-source version for $1.53.
Childhood Fun
ACROSS
1Dozen for
Hercules
7 Weevil target
11 Broad street
12 Buffalo’s lake
13 Take in
14Cotton
seeders
15Choose
16Arbor
makeup
17Basketball’s
Archibald
18Subject
of recent
mapping
19Cordelia’s dad
21 Train unit
22 Ransom star
25John Ritter’s
dad
26Sudden
breeze
27Poplars
6Collection
7 Kick off
8South
American
river
9 End, for one
10Inferior
16Words of
action
18Ancient
Roman jurist
20Spur
22Dark pigment
23Demanded
24 First pope
25 — rasa
28Temperamental
30 “Of Thee —”
31Coloration
32Fury
34Gushing
review
36Zodiac
animal
29Bread with a
pocket
33Burger
topper
34Lacquer
ingredient
35“Do — others
...”
36 G or R
37 Told tales
38 Get even for
39Dennis’s role
on NYPD Blue
40Business
news
highlight
DOWN
1Weighed
down
2 Spanish city
3Sire
4Amoeba
makeup
5Underbody
problem
✤ WORD
SLEUTH 2
Balloons CartoonsGames School
Blocks
Climbing
Jump rope
Bubble gum
Comic books
Playgrounds Teddy bears
CandyDolls Playing
Skate boards
1960
from page 19
Reeling
Years
1. Silent Spring.
2. The Camaro.
3.San Francisco — more specifically, the
neighborhood of
Haight-Ashbury.
4.Syria, Jordan and
Egypt.
5. Carnaby Street.
6. Robert Wise.
7.“Christmas (Baby
Please Come
Home)”
8.The biblical book
of Ecclesiastes.
9. The Twist.
10. Pepper.
Dancing “The Twist.”
TOTYTSIC :
A
in
th e
Mr. Potato Head
Hasbro introduced the first Mr. Potato Head in 1952. A plastic
model with plastic parts that attached variously to the body
— ears, eyes, shoes, a hat, a nose, a mouth — it was the first
toy to be advertised on TV. Over the years Mr. Potato Head
picked up additional adornments (suit, shirts, tie), was joined
by a Mrs. and gained accessories like a boat and trailer.
1947
1955
Who's That Star?
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r
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by Lucie M. Winborne
Barbie Millicent Roberts was born on March 9, 1959, in Willows, Wis.,
to George and Margaret Roberts, the oldest of six siblings. Although her
childhood was “relatively normal,” from her teen years on she has fit the
stereotype of a firstborn child as high achiever, with a staggering list of
accomplishments.
“I always wanted to demonstrate that women can take on a
variety of roles in life,” Barbie is frequently quoted as saying, adding
that her parents instilled in their children a strong sense of the value
of education. To that end, not only has she completed medical school,
serving as both nurse and physician but she has also passed her love
of learning on to both children and adults by teaching a number of
subjects ranging from Spanish to sign language to art.
And when she’s not teaching, she’s doing: putting her boundless
energy into public service roles on the police force and at the local fire
department, even in the world of politics, which she admits is “probably
the biggest challenge I’ve ever taken on.” Praised for her selfless work on
behalf of UNICEF and as an ambassador for world peace, she surprised
the nation by narrowly beating out Bill Clinton in the 1996 presidential
race, then choosing to serve only one term in order to devote more time
to her numerous causes.
Sadly, Barbie hasn’t found quite as much success on the romantic
front. Although she and Ken Carson were a couple for over 40 years, they
never married or had a family. Both are tight-lipped about the reason
behind their 2004 breakup, though tabloids have speculated that an
Australian surfer known only as Blaine played a role. Two years later the
couple reunited, but those closest to them say they
remain “just friends.”
For all her accomplishments, Barbie has
weathered her share of criticism. Some have
accused her of promoting an “unrealistic body
image” that could lead young women to become
anorexic in an attempt to emulate her flawless
figure, but the former teen model insists that
“each woman has her own beauty,” attributing her
shape to diet and workouts rather than surgical
enhancement.
Are there any frontiers left for Barbie to explore?
Rumors hint at a possible NASA stint, but Barbie is
keeping mum at the moment. What seems certain is
that this timeless beauty will continue to surprise and
inspire us for years to come.
The Mattel toy company released its first Barbie fashion doll in 1959.
Since then, more than a billion Barbie dolls have been sold worldwide. In
2009, to celebrate her 50th birthday, a runway show in New York’s Fashion
Week was staged in her honor, with fashions created by the leading haute
couturiers.
Feeling Nostalgic
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By Lucie M.
Today’s parents are faced with a dizzying myriad of choices
when it comes to providing playthings for their offspring.
As technology advances, so does the temptation to spring
for mini laptops or videos that promise to turn babies into
future Einsteins. But experts like Susan Linn, a psychiatry
professor at Harvard Medical School, believes the best toys
are “10 percent toy and 90 percent child.”
Perhaps that’s why some of the low-tech fun that boomers
grew up with has never gone out of style, finding a new
audience today with a younger generation discovering,
as Linn says, that “the toys that really foster creativity just
lie there until they’re transformed by children,” like a few
favorites pictured here you still may have in your closet.
RUBIK’S CUBE
When Ernö Rubik introduced his 3-D color-coded puzzle in the mid’70s, it took almost a decade for the deceptively simple invention
to become a household name, but kids and adults alike still spend
countless addictive hours scrambling the cube’s colored squares
in an attempt to restore it to its original color scheme. Never mind
that with 43 quintillion combinations, achieving the sole solution
often seems maddeningly out of reach: It took Rubik himself at least
a month to solve it. Devotees cite such benefits as increased focus,
patience, even confidence, as well as improved spatial awareness
and sharpened mental reflexes from their hours of practice. And
for the competitive, cash prizes are given for categories including
fewest moves, one-handed and even blindfolded in national and
international championships.
LEGO
The 1949 debut of Danish carpenter Ole
Christiansen’s interlocking red and white
blocks (the name is derived from the Danish
words “leg godt,” or “play well”) gave kids
nearly endless opportunities to stretch
the bounds of imagination. A mere six
bricks can be combined in more than 100
million ways, and as one modern adult fan
noted, “Where one day you are making a castle,
the next you can make a space station.” Teachers
and engineers praise the toy for promoting
hand-eye coordination, communication, critical
thinking and problem solving, even mathematics,
while its ageless versatility makes it a great multigenerational family activity. To date, Lego has produced more than 320
billion single bricks, with no sign of slowing down.
ETCH A SKETCH
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A BALL
Sometimes we forget how
much enjoyment can be derived
from simply bouncing a ball.
Playground favorite foursquare,
in which players work their way
from the lowest numbered square
to the highest by eliminating their
fellow players in those squares,
boosts kids’ hand-eye coordination
and manual dexterity, as well as
group skills like teamwork and
cooperation, with only a bouncy
ball, piece of chalk, flat surface and
four enthusiastic participants. To
make the game more challenging,
special-instruction calls like “Bus
stop,” “Taxi” and “Titanic” can be
inserted at random, and those
of a competitive bent can go on
in adulthood to an annual world
championship tournament in
Bridgton, Maine, where some
players increase the fun by
continuing another favorite
childhood tradition: dressing in
costume while going for the prize.
Feeling Nostalgic
“ARE YOU SURE THERE’S
A MARKET FOR THAT?”
5
ROTTEN
KIDS’ TOYS
THAT POSITIVELY
STANK By Lucie M. Winborne
Designing the perfect toy is a complex business these
days, what with worrying about small parts getting lost or
swallowed, packaging, noise factor, movie or TV tie-ins, etc.
But what about those “What were you thinking?”
creations that are the equivalent of Ford’s Edsel? It’s hard
to picture even the most desperate parents flocking to
the mall for these gems, which undoubtedly received an
engraved invitation to the Toy Hall of Shame shortly after
their debut. Like these …
Airport Security Play Set
Perhaps Time magazine said it best when it asked:
“Why let your kids play with toys that encourage their
wildest flights of fancy when you can teach them the
joys of standing in line and following rules?” Especially
for only $58 — far less than the cost of an average plane ticket!
Still, while the set is available on Amazon.com, few wanted
to relive the joys of post-911 air travel, although for those
youngsters pondering a future career in security, there’s the …
Police Electric Baton Shock
Or, not to put too fine a point on it, the toy taser. Sure,
kids throughout the ages have clobbered each other in
the name of role playing, but even in a game of cops and
robbers, it’s hard to picture a scenario in which delivering
an electric shock to his friends wouldn’t put a kid on the
fast track to the time-out corner. Yet even that’s not quite
as drastic as the child-friendly version of …
Super
Aids
Six young
White House aides,
accidentally exposed
to a chemical that gave
them super powers,
using their new
talents in the service
of President Ronald
Reagan? Sounded like a good idea until the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention labeled a mysterious
new illness “acquired immune deficiency syndrome” or
AIDS. Perhaps Mattel should have stuck to promoting
Reagan values like those espoused a couple of decades
later by …
Happy Family Midge
Russian Roulette?
No, it’s just the Kaba Kick! Players point a pink hipposhaped barrel at their own heads, pull the trigger, and
earn points if nothing happens (just like in real life).
However, if the gun “fires,” they get a kick from plastic
feet. Suffice it to say that while the Japanese have given
us many wonderful inventions, this was not one of them.
But kids in hot water for playing with guns after their
folks warned them not to might have earned points of a
different sort by helping to fight injustice on the political
front, if Mattel hadn’t pulled its …
Midge unquestionably
made impending
motherhood look easy
with a magnetically
attached belly
containing a baby that
could be snapped out
of its plastic womb for
cuddling. Unfortunately,
consumers didn’t quite
see it that way. Some
shoppers believed the
doll promoted teen
pregnancy, in spite
of the fact that Midge’s family included a husband, and
after a nationwide series of complaints, it was clear this
expectant mom just didn’t deliver.
Feeling Nostalgic
Illustration by Vincent Guise
FROM THE ARCHIVES OF CRIME
Sunday Mirror Magazine, Sept. 12, 1948
The Clue of
the Curious
Bobby-Soxer
by Arthur Mefford
The amicable teenager didn’t realize that friendship with
a “nice stranger” would involve her in a murder case
LIEUTENANT PHIL BREITZKE, head
of the Chicago Homicide Squad, took the
call. In an excited voice the manager of the
famous Stevens Hotel reported that there had
been a murder in Room 717. Ten minutes
later, Breitzke and a dozen detectives were
on the scene. They were followed by Coroner
A. L. Brodie.
Inside a closet was the victim. He
appeared to be about 25. His hair was matted
with blood. His face was battered, his lips
twisted grotesquely. He was a slight youth,
about five feet six and he was attired only in
light gray trousers.
On a chair was a checked shirt and a
plaid coat, such as is usually affected by the
drugstore cowboy-bobbysox crowd.
“This boy,” said Brodie, after a brief
examination, “was beaten to death. Probably
with the base of this lamp.” He held up a
bronze-based lamp he had picked from the
floor. “Besides that,” he went on, “he was
stabbed three times in the head and five times
in the chest. Any one of the wounds could
have been fatal.”
Inquiry brought out that the victim had
occupied the room with another youth of
about his own age. That both had been in the
room the previous evening — that of May 10,
1945 — was indicated by the fact that both
the twin beds had been slept in.
The hotel manager revealed that the slain
youth and his roommate had been registered
as Harold Gordon and Robert Levitus, both
of 106 West 47th Street, New York City.
The manager didn’t know which was
Gordon and which was Levitus, so he
couldn’t identify the victim. From a bellhop,
however, Chief of Detectives Walter Storms
learned that both boys were well supplied
with money, had ordered food and drinks in
their room, and had been liberal tippers.
“What did his roommate look like?”
Storms demanded.
The bellhop pondered a moment,
then —
“Well, I don’t think the other guy was
as old as this one. He was always prettied up
in a fancy riding habit and reminded me of a
movie cowboy. He was good-looking, with
blond, curly hair.”
Detective John McNamara, who had There they had registered as “Smith” and as “Flash Gordon” because of his bravado.
been making an inch-by-inch search of the “Levinsky,” giving as their home address, a Breitzke described Gordon’s roommate.
suite, interrupted the questioning. “Here’s non-existent street number in Chicago.
‘”Oh, he?” said one youth. “He went to
a letter,” he said, handing it to Storms. The
“We’ve got to find Shirley,” Storms said. Senn High, too. But he was much younger
letter read:
“Concentrate on her!”
than Stein. He was a freshman. His name is
“Dear Son: Don’t just glance at this
Breitzke and his aides started checking Donald Jay Cooke. He’s only about 16 now,
letter and discard it as so much paper. You on the telephone calls made from Room 717. but looks older. Both of them were finally
are starting a new life. Don’t make it just an After three days work they finally located one expelled from Senn and sent to Montifiore.”
adventure. Make it something worthwhile. number at which a girl named Shirley lived. Montifiore is a school for incorrigibles.
Please do the right thing, dear. You are old She was Shirley Allen, a stunning brunette
“When was the last time you saw
enough to know right from wrong and to of 18.
Cooke?” pressed Breitzke.
know the consequences …”
After a lot of denials, Shirley finally
“Almost a month ago. They got out of
“Try to get a room in a Jewish admitted she had visited Gordon in his room Montifiore and came back here. They both
neighborhood. The police won’t look for you the day before his body was discovered. had a lot of dough and peppy new clothes.
there. Don’t at any time confide in anyone She said that she had met him at a corner They made fun of us guys still going to
that your name is other than Harold Gordon. drugstore; that he seemed like a nice boy school and called us a lot of suckers.”
Make sure that no one calls you anything but and that she liked him. Beyond the fact that
“You know whether he and Cooke were
Harold. Please, dear, try to make good.
mixed up in any gangs?”
Love, Mom.”
‘’Yes, I heard they were,” said the
“Hmmm!” grunted Storms.
youth. “But I don’t know anything about
“Doesn’t make sense. Still doesn’t
it beyond that.”
identify the victim as one or the other.
“Gordon’s” parents, Mr. and Mrs.
However, it does look like they were
Alfred Stein, lived at 4932 North Kedzie
both on the lam. As I size it up, this guy
Avenue, it was found. They were taken to
is Gordon and the letter proves that his
the morgue and identified the body as that
mother knows about some misdoings of
of their son.
his. We’ve got to find out who ‘Don’ is.”
The parents reluctantly conceded
After Storms had digested the
that their son had been a “problem child.”
letter, McNamara handed him another
He became a truant at an early age
slip of paper. It was the unused return
and they had a hard time keeping him
part of a round-trip bus ticket from
out of scrapes. He filched things from
Confronted by the police and her mother,
Cleveland to Chicago. As evidence it
neighborhood stores, fought with children
the girl broke down and told all she knew
was worthless, except perhaps to show
his own age, and at 17 had been accused
about her boyfriend.
that the victim may have been from
by a girl of a morals offense.
Cleveland, instead of New York City.
In November 1944, he had been
Breitzke, meanwhile, had been checking with Gordon had told her he came from New York, caught in a burglary, but the judge had been
the hotel’s chief operator on telephone calls she knew nothing about him. She named the lenient and released him on probation. The
made from the room. She had recorded the drugstore where she had met him.
parents had then sent him to a private school
numbers and the lieutenant double-checked
Three detectives were assigned to cover in Detroit. A short time later he had been
on all the addresses.
the place, to question every one of the jive expelled for robbing fellow pupils.
Questioning of other hotel employees hepcats with whom the victim had ingratiated
“Then he ran away from home,” his
revealed that the victim’s roommate had himself because of his free spending. mother said, tearfully. ‘”He wrote me from
gone out early the previous morning. He Eventually they talked to a boy named Meyer New York and I wrote back begging him to
was dressed for the bridle path and hadn’t Goldberg.
be good. He said he was taking a new name
returned so far as was known. Then, shortly
“Sure, I know ‘Gordon,’” he said. “I and starting all over. ‘You’ll be proud of me,
after he went out, the slain youth had a female think he got mixed up in some sort of a mess yet,’ he wrote.
visitor — a pretty brunette whom a bellhop in New York and he came back here using
“We didn’t know he had returned to
had heard him call “Shirley.”
that phony name. His real name is Morton Chicago, and we never heard of Donald
“She was very young and wore bobby- Stein, and he used to go to Senn High School Cooke.”
sox,” the bellhop said. “I served their lunch here with me.”
Breitzke and his men now concentrated
here in the room.”
ON a hot trail now, the detectives hurried on a search for Cooke. His description was
New York police, meanwhile, reported to Senn High School. There the records sent out on thousands of police flyers and on
that the 47th Street address given by the two revealed that Stein had been an irregular the teletype. Further patient digging brought
youths was that of the Rex Hotel, and that two pupil, often in conflict with the truant officer. to light Mrs. Isabelle Edwards, Cooke’s
boys answering the description of Gordon He was sophisticated far beyond his years.
mother, who worked as a secretary to a
and Levitus had lived there for several weeks.
Among fellow pupils he had been known Continued on page 34
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Reeling
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’70s Trivia
Frosty Snow Cone Maker
First released in 1969, the Frosty Snow Cone Maker
became an instant hit with the summer set. Add
ice cubes and syrup flavoring, and turn the handle
for your own frosty treat. Have trouble crushing
the ice? You could still tear open the packets and
drink the syrup.
1.According to this TV commercial, how does a kid eat an
Oreo cookie?
2.
Name the hairstyle popularized by Olympic gold
medalist Dorothy Hamill in 1976.
3.What radical group kidnapped American heiress Patty
Hearst?
4.Construction began on this American oil pipeline in
1973, and it was opened in 1977, during an oil crisis.
5.Which of the following was not invented during the
’70s? Food processor; cellular telephone; Velcro; the
CAT scanner
6.What state did Mary Ann of Gilligan’s Island call home?
7.In 1974, the Sears Tower became the world’s tallest
building in this city.
8.She was the first “test tube baby,” born from in-vitro
fertilization in 1978.
9. What was the purpose of the neutron bomb?
10.In the musical Grease, what was bad-girl Rizzo’s real
name?
Even Exchange
by Donna Pettman
Each numbered row contains two clues and two 6-letter answers. The two answers differ from each other by only
one letter, which has already been inserted. For example, if you exchange the A from MASTER for an I, you get
MISTER. Do not change the order of the letters.
1. Railroad cars —R———
Samuel Clemens
—W———
2. Tasteless B————
African antelope
E————
3. Small horses
— — N — — — Flowers — — S — — —
4. Stockpile
— — — — ETempest
————M
5. Painting border
—R———
Fire from a candle
—L———
6. Breakfast cake W————— Lottery
R—————
7. Fruit of the vine
———P—
Mealtime prayer
———C—
8. Talking wildly
— — — — — GGully
—————E
9. Ponder
— — — — K
Addams Family hand
————G
10. Confess
——P———
Up to date
——C———
T o ys
in The Att ic
Trivia Quiz ANSWERS from page 10
1. Snakes and Ladders, an ancient game from India.
2.Mr. Potato Head, in 1952. Before 1960 the toy didn’t
come with a potato.
3.Eleven. Seven more were added in 1963. An evil Cathy
imitation made it into an episode of The Twilight Zone,
using the same voice as the original doll, but speaking
hateful phrases.
4.1969. The rear-loading version was discovered to be too
top-heavy. The side-load version that made it to retail
stores had two surfboards hanging from the sides.
5.Using media to push toy sales: For example, My Little
Pony had two
television
Cootie
series plus a
movie.
The
Transformers
had a comic
book
series
and a television
series.
6.24, six for each
of the Cooties
to be built.
7.Raggedy Ann
& Andy: A Musical Adventure, 1977. This was followed
in the 1980s by Masters of the Universe, The Care Bears,
Rainbow Brite and My Little Pony.
8.Inline skates actually came first, as far back as 1760 when
wheels were put on a skate in place of an ice-skating
blade. Four wheels didn’t come along until 1863.
9.Stuff advertised in the back of comic books, often ripoffs. Read Mail-Order Mysteries by Kirk Demarais for
an exposé of what you really got when you ordered those
things and more.
10. Four, one for each branch of the military services.
11. Twenty.
12.From Ole Kirk Christiansen, who called his company
LEGO, short for the Danish words “Leg Godt,” which
means to “play well.” LEGO is still owned by a company
in Denmark.
13.Baking powder caused a reaction that made the sub go up
and down in the water.
14.Cabbage Patch Kids dolls are born. The site in Cleveland,
Ga., includes an “adoption” center.
15.Non-Expanding Recreational Foam, the spongy material
Nerf toys are made from.
1975
Mah-Jongg
✤ WORD
SLEUTH 3
Bamboos DragonsJokers
Circles
East
CombinationsFlowers
Tiles
ScorecardWall
Sets
Winds
Cracks GameSuits
Those Funky’70s
ACROSS &byDOWN
Donna Pettman
from page 32
Reeling
Years
’70s Trivia
Answers
1.“Oh, a kid will eat the middle of an Oreo first, and
save the chocolate cookie outside for last.”
2.The wedge cut.
3. Symbionese
Liberation
Army, or SLA.
4.The TransAlaskan Oil
Pipeline.
5. Velcro.
6. Kansas.
7. Chicago.
8. Louise Brown.
Dorothy Hamill sports a
9.It killed people
wedge cut
yet left buildings and
infrastructure intact.
10. Betty.
Continued from page 29
business executive. She said that Donald’s father had died when he
was about 3, and that she had remarried. Then her second husband,
Edwards, died, and Donald got beyond control.
“I think Morton Stein was the bad influence in my son’s life,”
she said.
She said her son, after being freed on probation from Montifiore,
had visited her only once. With him at the time were Stein and Shirley
Allen.
“She seemed like an awfully nice little girl,” Mrs. Edwards went
on. “I hoped she would be a good influence on Stein, and in that way
on my son as well. But it looks differently now. I have no idea where
my son is.”
Breitzke now called on Shirley Allen again.
“Shirley,” he said, “I hear you’re only 15, instead of the 18 you
claim. I also know that you didn’t tell me all you knew about ‘Gordon.’
Now, you’ve got to come clean or else you’ll be in trouble.” Shirley’s
mother broke into tears.
‘’She’ll tell everything,” her mother sobbed. “Shirley, tell this
gentleman the truth.”
“Was Don Cooke in love with you, too?” Breitzke urged.
“No,” the girl replied. “There never was any question about that.
He didn’t try to horn in on my affair with ‘Gordon’ in any way. He
left the Stevens hotel room right after I got there the day before they
found the body. He had on a riding habit and said he was going over
to the ‘Academy.’
“That’s the last time I ever saw him. And, I had luncheon with
Rearrange the letters in each group to form a word.
Place the words into the diagram so that the same
words read both across and down. The first word across
is the same as the first word down, the second word
across is the same as the second word down and so on.
The letter groups are not necessarily placed next to the
row of the diagram in which they go.
‘Gordon’ and left the hotel about five o’clock. I called him the next
day but nobody answered.”
Pressed further, Shirley said Stein, whose real name she knew,
had bragged to her about a dozen holdups he and Cooke had staged.
“That day I had lunch with him, I opened a dresser drawer while he
was in the bathroom. There was a blackjack, a long, sharp knife and a
book. The book was The Life of John Dillinger. I asked him about it
and he said he studied the book so he would avoid making the same
mistakes that Dillinger did.” Shirley denied knowledge of any specific
holdups Stein and Cooke had committed. Breitzke and his aides were
satisfied she had told all she knew.
MEANWHILE, other detectives had discovered that Don Cooke
had bought a bus ticket for Houston, Texas. The search for him was
concentrated there. But the police didn’t give up surveillance of the
bobby-sox crowd at the drugstore.
One of the bobby-soxers received a picture postcard from De
Ridder, La. “Having a swell time,” Donald Cooke wrote. “You’d like it
if you were here with me.’’
Louisiana State Troopers turned De Ridder upside down looking
for Cooke. No luck. Then another bobby-soxer got a card from him
postmarked “Marshall, Texas.” No luck there, either. Then a third card,
this time from Gretna, La. The sheriff caught him there.
He admitted killing Stein. Said he slew him in self-defense after
Stein had attacked him with a knife. ‘’I pushed his body into a closet,
took what dough he had, and beat it,” he said.
On December 7, 1945, back in Chicago, Cooke pleaded guilty to
manslaughter before Criminal Court Judge Harold G. Ward. Only 16,
he was immediately sentenced to 14 year in State’s prison.
Awesome’80s
Reeling
’80s Trivia
1.
Name the mechanical bear that belonged
to Apollo’s son Boxey in the TV series
Battlestar Galactica.
2.
Who lamented that there were “no candycovered chocolate hearts to give away and no
wedding Saturday within the month of June”?
3.This original comic strip featured Bill the
Cat.
4.What company created the first color arcade
game?
5.Name the war that took place on a Caribbean
island during Ronald Reagan’s first
presidential term.
6.She made waves as a mermaid in the hit film
Splash.
7. What made Michael Milken rich and famous?
8.
Clothing designer known for its alligator
logo.
9.What former communist European country
produced one of the decade’s lamest
automobiles?
10.This perky brunette was one of the first MTV
veejays.
The ’80s was the decade that introduced us to John Hughes
and his long resumé of socially relevant films that captured
the feel of the generation, from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off to
National Lampoon’s Vacation. It was also the decade in film
that brought Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Shining, Top Gun and
these other films — see if you remember the title.
1
Hint: Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) showed audiences how to win
over a girl using his boombox in this film.
2
Hint: Disney introduced a more lively, spunky heroine named
Ariel in this animated classic.
3
Hint: Tatum O’Neal and Kristy McNichol are pitted against each
other to see who can lose their virginity first in this drama.
Answers: 1. Say Anything (1989) 2. The Little Mermaid (1989)
3. Little Darlings (1980)
Awesome’80s
TOTYTSIC :
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✤ WORD
SLEUTH 4
Wooly Willy
Brakeman Crossing
Wooly Willy was the ultimate car-trip toy back in the ’50s and ’60s.
Using a magnetic wand, you pulled metal filings through the plastic
cover over Willy’s face, which was printed on the inside card. Other
versions included Dapper Dan, Funny Face and Brunette Betty.
In 2003, the Toy Industry Association named Wooly Willy to its
“Century of Toys List.”
1985
Trains
PassengersTankers
CabooseDiesel Porter Track
Cars
EngineSignalWhistle
ConductorFreight
Steam
TOTYTSIC :
from page 35
Reeling
A
Years
in
th e
1. Muffit.
Muffit and Boxey on
2.Stevie Wonder in
“Battlestar Galactica”
“I Just Called to
Say I Love You.”
3. Bloom County.
4.Atari. The game
was “Tempest.”
5. Grenada.
6. Daryl Hannah.
7. Junk bonds.
8. Izod.
9.Yugoslavia gave
us the “Yugo,”
the future of which was a “No go.”
10. Martha Quinn.
Simon Says
Simon Says was an early electronic game from Milton Bradley
that used what was called software back then to devise
patterns of tones that players were challenged to repeat by
pressing buttons. The longer the game progressed, the more
buttons players would have to recall and press. Released in
1978 at Studio 54 in New York City, Simon Says was a hit of
the 1970s and ’80s.
Cabbage Patch of Gold
If you grew up in the
’80s, Cabbage Patch Kids
sprouted up just
about everywhere
you looked.
Originally created
in the 1970s for sale at
local craft shows by
Xavier Roberts, they were
named Cabbage Patch
Kids by Roger Schlaifer when he
secured the worldwide licensing
rights in 1982.
Schlaifer and his wife wrote the story that has been
included with every Cabbage Patch Kid product since. In it,
Xavier Roberts, a 10-year-old boy, discovers the Cabbage
Patch Kids by following a Bunny Bee behind a waterfall into a
magical valley, where the Babies are being born. To keep them
from becoming enslaved by the evil Lavendar McDade, it is
his mission to get each Cabbage Patch Baby adopted into the
home of a loving family.
The dolls were first manufactured and sold by the toy
company Coleco, followed by Hasbro, Mattel, Toys ’R’ Us and
(currently) Play Along.
Around the mid-’80s, Cabbage
Patch Kids became so popular that
desperate parents sometimes got
into fights over the one remaining
doll in stock. The dolls made the
cover of Newsweek before
Christmas.
Roger Schlaifer and
his wife issued more than
150 licenses for Cabbage
Patch Kids branded
products, generating
some $2 billion in retail
sales.
Cabbage Patch Kids were named the official mascot of the
1992 Olympic Team, and in 1999 a popular vote selected the
dolls as one of the 15 most representative images of the ’80s to
use in commemorative postage stamps.
Puzzles
Using the clues, simple arithmetic, and a little logic, place a
single digit (0 to 9) in each empty box in the diagram. To help
you get started, one digit has been entered in the diagram.
by Linda Thistle
ACROSS
1 One-fourth of 14-Across
4The first digit is the sum of the
other digits
6The last digit is three times the
first digit
7 Eight times 12-Across
14Consecutive digits in
ascending order
15 Five more than 5-Down
9 Two times 12-Down
10 10-Down times 12-Down
11Consecutive digits in
ascending order
12 11-Across plus 3-Down
13 10-Across minus 1-Across
DOWN
2
Four hundred less than 4-Across
3 One less than 4-Down
4 Five times 10-Down
7Three hundred more than
11-Down
8 One more than 6-Across
9The last digit is the sum of the
other digits
10 One-fourth of 8-Down
12 11-Across minus 8-Down
Super Crossword
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❉ JOSEPH CROSSWORD 1
ANSWER
❈ KING
CROSSWORD 1
Puzzle Answers
Retro
Sleuth
Childhood Fun
✤ WORD SLEUTH 2
Case answers
1. Transformers
2.“I Just Called To Say I Love You”
3.“Where’s the beef?”
4. Alex Trebek
5. Pound Puppies
6. The first Apple Macintosh computer
goes on sale
Mah-Jongg
✤ WORD SLEUTH 3
Trains
✤ WORD SLEUTH 4
Even Exchange
Answers
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Puzzle Answers
TOTYTSIC :
A
G.I. Joe
Bucking conventional
wisdom that boys don’t
play with “dolls,” Hasbro
released this line of “action
figures” beginning in
1964. The initial product
offering represented the
four branches of the U.S.
armed forces. “America’s
movable fighting man”
was emblazoned on
every boxed figure. As the
war in Vietnam became
more problematic, G.I.
Joe lost his association
with Soldier/Sailor/Pilot/
Marine and he was turned
into an Adventurer.
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