Nostalgia and Toys Tie Christmas Past to Present
A New York NEA report muses on how Christmas memories shape shopping as toys of 40 to 50 years ago echoed in today’s selections. It notes dolls, wagons, and expanding playthings, with Bremer citing 850,000 dolls and 25,000 wooden wagons expected, while catalogs from 1910 and 1921 reveal shifts from simple gear to trains, stuffed toys, and sports equipment.
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Hardy
Sperry and Hutchinson Co
A. J. Bremer
A Chat With Joan And Renata
A chat recalls a man made Teddy bear with a pink bow belonging to a woman in her fifties and a set of small moving soldiers that inspired a political cartoonist as a child. The first single runner hockey skates mattered to an entertainment columnist while a women's editor cherishes Anne of Green Gables and a tale titled Little One Found Under the Tee.
Soprano Joan Sutherland at photo session with Tebaldi in New York
In Greenwich Village and Midtown, soprano Joan Sutherland meets Renata Tebaldi at a photo shoot ahead of NBC TV's Bell Telephone Hour on Jan. 1. They chat about opera, the Met, and fashion as they pose on the Met staircase.
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NEW York
NEA
Greenwich Village
Joan Sutherland
Renata Tebaldi
Leontyne Price
Birgit Nilsson
Price
Nilsson
Miss Tebaldi
NBCTV
Aries
Midtown East Side
Miss Sutherland
Metropolitan Opera House
Sutherland
Tebaldi
Met
Phyllis Diller
Southwest Artist Ted DeGrazia Faces Fame and Faith
Tucson artist Ted DeGrazia blends Mexican primitivism with desert imagery. He lives simply, collaborates with Apache, Hopi, Pima and Zuni communities, and refused a 250000 offer for his Stations of the Cross which now hangs at the Newman Center. He created UNICEF’s Los Ninos card, selling four million boxes, and remains tied to his art compound near Tucson despite progress and fame.
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Tucson
Ariz
United States
New England
Grandma Moses
Missouri
Thomas Hart Benton
Ted DeGrazia
Arizona
DeGrazia
Halian
Christ
Newman Center
University of Tucson
University of Arizona
Orozco
Rivera
Unicef
Carl Dentzel
Southwest Museum
Los Angles
Tom Benton
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Ileen
Aileen Snoddy
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Canberra
Australia
Kevin Arthur Wheatley
Sydney
Joan
Renata
Cologne
Ward & Son Co
Tee
Pangburn
Ward & Son Drug Co
E. Second St
Joan Crosby
Betty Yokoyva
Newstarter
Southwest
Robert Cochnar
Russia
Moscow
Soviet Union
Pacific
Tass
South Pacific
Mercury
Comet
Apri
Capri
the Trading Post
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