Matell founders Elliott and Ruth Handler rise from garage to toy empire
Elliot and Ruth Handler, a Denver pair who started in a 15 by 30 foot garage, now run Mattel with 58 thousand square feet of factory space and plans to gross about six million in 1951. Their mass produced music box launched the modern toy line, leading to hits like a $2 miniature hurdy gurdy and a range of musical toy dolls, guitars, and merry go rounds.
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Jack Quiggap
Culver City
Elliott
Ruth Handler
Elliot
Ruth
Hanalers
Denver
Colo
Los Angeles
Mattel, Inc
Matson
Camp Roberts
San Francisco
Ted Duncan
Europe
Diary Dreams Foretell Future Events Says English Scientist
An English researcher kept a dream diary showing some dreams later occurred in real life. He tested friends, logged details, and wrote An Experiment With Time. The piece notes déjà vu, parapsychology records, and asks if dreams foretell a fixed future. Some cases seem real others are dismissed as jokes.
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Thory
Flowers Dropped On Hiroshima Commemorative Flight
Three Korean War veterans manned a U S bomber that dropped flowers on Hiroshima on the sixth anniversary of the atomic blast. Capt. Ernest Jones led the mission from Omaha with crew members Gabriel Verdi and John Harris, both veterans of many missions. Observers massed in shrines and churches as Hiroshima's rebuilt city paid tribute to about 100000 dead in 1945.
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Hiroshima
Japan
U. S
Ernest Jones
Omaha
Neb
Korea
Gabriel D Verdi
Bronx
New York
John W. Harris
Rochester
N. Y
Verdi
Harris
Four Rescued From Icy Side Of Mt Hubbard
In Alaska a C-47 rescued four Arctic Institute Ice Studies Expedition members stranded on Mt Hubbard after their Norseman plane vanished with three others aboard. Rescued were Walter A. Wood and his son Peter of Far Hills New Jersey Robert Bates and Nicholas Clifford. The three missing were Pilot Marice King Mrs Wood and Valerie Wood. Lieutenant Colonel Wallace Walton stated the rescue was by a ski equipped C-47 and the crew reached Yakutat.
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Juneau
Alaska
Air Force
Mt. Hubbard
Arctic Institute
Walter A. Wood
Peter
Far Hills
N. J
Robert Bates
Boston
Nicholas Clifford
Marice King
Wood
Valerie
Wallace Walton
Flight A
City Dwellers Show Higher Allergy Rates Than Country Residents
City and town people have more than twice as high an incidence of allergy as compared to country dwellers. The high resistance of allergic persons to infection and diseases is an advantage in a crowded population.
Practical Jokes Go On For Weeks
In Omaha Mrs. Colleen Hall endures weeks of unceasing practical jokes. Callers seek lost articles, cleaners arrive for non existent pickups, and strangers push odd solicitations to the Hall and her mother Mrs. Lucille Mills. A single day brought rescue squads, taxicabs, and a false hospital emergency. No clues to the prankster emerge.
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Omaha
Colleen Hall
Hall
Lucille Mills
Fire Department
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