TOPS from the TOY SHOPS
SANTA CLAUS may be getting ready for the hard job ahead, but it’s a cinch he’ll need a boost from the family pocketbook, to even come close to satisfying the youngsters’ hunger for toys that are new and different. American toy designers seem to have outdone themselves this year in an effort to make the job of finding the right thing for young Johnny or Suzy an easy one. In fact, from the hundreds of toys now available, we had a hard job picking a selection to show you here. There were so many good-looking, fascinating, educational (the-kind-with-the-fun-still-left-in-them) toys that we hated to leave any out. The Toy Guidance Council recommends most of these.
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MOTORIZE YOUR BOY’S WAGON FOR $18.70
Make if REALLY USEFUL and LOTS OF FUN for him
Boys from five to twelve safely run and enjoy a motorized wagon. Learn many lessons they can use later. Entire cost only $18.70, If you now have wagon and motor. Any small gas engine is suitable. Price includes all pulleys, belts, shafts, and instant clutch. We have new wagons and motors available. WAGON CAN BE CONVERTED IN LESS THAN AN HOUR.
With a small ELECTRIC motor, wagon makes enjoyable and never failing entertainment in the recreation room. Can be safely operated by a four year old.
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I would be more worried about someone stealing my cheetah than my car. Of course I’d be much more worried about my cheetah stealing some some curious child’s arm.
CHILDREN’S PICTURE-STORY DEPARTMENT
A Modern Lilliput That Has No Lilliputians, Being an Uninhabited Miniature Village Constructed by the Children of a Denver Man near His Summer Home in the Rocky Mountains: The Church Has Spires Three Feet High. To the Right Is an Electrically Lighted Brick Block in the Village
South Pasadena, California, Is Proud of Possessing What Is Doubtless the Youngest Band in the World. Including the Bandmaster, Seen in the Foreground, Each of the 60 Members of the Band Is Seven Years Young or Younger. All Are First and Second-Grade Pupils of the Local Public Schools, Where They were Trained. Left: Close-Up of Three of the Musicians
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Well they certainly look like they’re having the time of their lives.
It’s Fun to Play This Indoor Football Game
Played by two to six persons, this game provides endless fun for members of your family or your party guests. The object of the game is to drive a table-tennis ball into one of the two goal baskets at opposite ends of the box. This is done by hitting the ball with wooden paddles attached to dowel rods, which are turned and pushed back and forth by hand. There are eight rods; the two center ones have four paddles each, the next two toward each goal have three each, while the next pair have two paddles each and the last two next to the goals have only one paddle each.
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If my father had really loved me, he would have made me one of these.
Youngster Gets “Wings” at Age of Four
Valid until December 31, 2000, a novel airplane license recently issued by Australian air authorities entitles four-year-old Eric Morris to operate his homemade “flying flea,” shown in the photograph below. The diminutive craft, modeled after a French plane, is fitted with a gasoline engine of one and a half horsepower that allows the young pilot to taxi it along the ground as fast as twelve miles an hour.
This would be even cooler if there was a string to make his nose grow.
Pinocchio the Puppet
HOW TO DUPLICATE THE AMUSING LITTLE MODEL WALT DISNEY’S ANIMATORS USED
By HI SIBLEY
PINOCCHIO, the wistful puppet created by Geppetto, the wood carver, in Walt Disney’s second full-length production, is an inviting subject for either a homemade puppet or an amusing and companionable little doll. The accompanying illustrations show how to go about making one patterned after the original, which was created by the Disney model department as an inspiration to the animators drawing Pinocchio.
If you are an expert wood carver yourself, the head might be fashioned from a solid block of soft white pine and the nose inserted (Fig. 1), but a surer way to achieve a fair likeness is first to make a clay model. From this a plaster-of-Paris mold is taken, and the head is cast in plastic composition wood (Figs. 2, 3, and 4). The hat is made in the same way as the head and glued on.
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Your Child’s Portrait in a Doll
PORTRAIT DOLLS, modeled after children or adults by Dewees Cochran, New York painter and sculptress, reproduce all the details of features, hair, and complexion found in the original. Supplementing conventional sculptor’s tools with dental instruments for fine work, Miss Cochran models the amazingly lifelike figures from real life, or from written descriptions and photographs, one full face and one profile. The doll head is first shaped in a claylike material. From this a plaster mold is made in which the head is cast in a virtually unbreakable substance that simulates actual skin texture.
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That kid’s record recorder is pretty awesome. It works like a tape recorder. I wonder how well it worked.
“Playtalk” electronic toy for children uses a grooveless paper disk coated with “powdered” iron to record and reproduce magnetically music or voice. Records hold about two minutes of recording; can be “erased” and reused often
RADIO and ELECTRONICS TODAY
A — Twelve-pound self-powered tape recorder swings over the shoulder like a camera case. It is used by newsmen to cover news for the “Mutual Newsreel” programs; the small microphone may be held in the hand, or strapped on wrist
B — All-channel television and FM indoor antenna of unusual design employs parabolic-dipole arrangement on telescoping rods. Swivel joints make numerous adjustments possible
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