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A SUCCESS STORY • According to the book “Forever Barbie” by M. G. Lord, Ruth Handler was the one who came up with the idea for the Barbie doll after seeing a German doll named Lilli that was anatomically correct and intended to be given as a gag gift to bachelors. Her husband Elliot was already in the manufacturing business. Ruth asked him to start making adult-looking dolls for their daughter, who was too old for baby dolls but not too old for dolls altogether. Elliot began manufacturing the doll. • The doll was named after the Handler’s daughter, Barbie, who was born in 1941. Their son Ken was born in 1944. The factory foreman’s name was Harold Matson. Matson and Elliot combined their names to form the Mattel Corporation. • In 1955 Mattel was already well established in the toy business when they got the opportunity to sponsor a new TV show: “The Mickey Mouse Club.” As a result, Mattel’s ads turned toy sales from a once-a-year occurrence at Christmas time to a year-round event. Barbie went on the market in 1959. (continued next page)
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• Barbie was the only adult female doll on the market until Mattel introduced her best friend Midge. Midge was less glamorous than Barbie, while still being perky. Later Midge got a boyfriend, Alan, and Barbie got a little sister, Skipper. • One model of Skipper had budding breasts that would sprout when her arms were shoved backwards. Twist her arms once again and she was flat-chested once more. • The Skipper doll came with her own miniature Barbie doll just over an inch tall with a paintedon swimsuit and yellow hair. • Mattel was originally against the idea of producing a Ken doll because male dolls had never sold well. The Ken was finally released in 1961. It was a success because little girls knew that Barbie needed a boyfriend. • Barbie’s cousin Francie appeared in 1966, followed by her black friends Christie and Julia. To make the afro hair look real, the doll’s heads were stuck in an oven and heated, making the hair crinkle up. Jamaican Barbie and Nigerian Barbie followed at later dates. • Talking Stacey, Barbie’s English friend, was released in 1969. • When the question arose of whether Barbie should have a baby, the problem was solved by issuing a Barbie doll that came with an infant and an apron with “Babysitter” clearly written on it. • In 1993 Mattel came out with an “Earring Magic Ken” complete with single earring, purple vest, and necklace.
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• In 1967 Barbie acquired eyelashes and a twisting waist. Any girls who had an old Barbie were encouraged to trade it in for a discount on a new one. Each year afterwards a new version was released that would do something the previous dolls did not: tilt the head, kiss, blink eyes, grip objects, etc. This ensured continuing sales. • Until 1971, Barbie’s gaze was downcast to one side — a very submissive look. In 1971 she was given a direct straight-ahead look as the women’s liberation movement gathered force. • Jack Ryan, who was married for a short time to Zsa Zsa Gabor, invented the joints that allowed Barbie to bend at the waist and the knee. Ryan made a fortune on his patents. • In 1966 “Color Magic” Barbie was on the market. Her hair and clothes changed color when a “magic” potion was applied. • In 1977 an 18-inch tall Barbie was introduced. She came with a pink Corvette, a motorhome, and a beauty boutique. • In 1979 Barbie got a Fur and Jewels Safe that came complete with a security alarm. • In 1981 Barbie developed tan lines. • Even though Black Barbie and Hispanic Barbie came out in 1980, Blond Barbie outsells all other dolls even in Latin America. • In 1992 the expensive Empress Bride Barbie collector’s doll had a dress created by worldfamous dress designer Bob Mackie. • Barbie’s waist is so narrow not to fit some impossible male ideal, but because when you make a doll-sized waist-band out of cloth, the folds of cloth are so bulky and cumbersome that it would make all but the most slender doll look fat. • Today Mattel is one of the biggest apparel manufacturers in the world due to Barbie’s expanding wardrobe, with over 100 new additions annually. (Continued next page)
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• Mafia fugitive Francesco Farina had been wanted by the Sicilian police since 1996. He’d been on the run, fleeing from charges of robbery and drug dealing. When police suspected they had tracked him down to a particular flat in Sicily, they staked the place out with a succession of cops dressed as Santa standing on the street corner outside the building. They arrested Farina shortly before Christmas, 2001, and then turned in their Santa suits. • Just before Christmas, a Reno, Nevada newspaper asked for volunteers to come forward to help in some less-than-scientific experiments to find out how to destroy unwanted fruitcakes. The assembled group then devised a number of methods. They discovered over the course of the day that dropping a fruitcake from a second floor had little impact. One team shot it with a sub-machine gun (sub-machine guns are legal in Nevada) but also found the fruitcake survived relatively intact. Football player Damon Fine drop-kicked one, with very satisfying explosive results. However, the best method was running over the fruitcake with a truck. • Fundraisers in London raise money for cancer research by hosting the Great Christmas Pudding race each December. The event pits teams of celebrities in fancy dress in a relay race. Each team carries a Christmas pudding on a platter, waiter-style. The racecourse is full of obstacles. The team that wins is awarded Christmas puddings as a prize. • In December of 2001, over 500 Santas participated in a four-mile (6.4 km) run for charity. The event, held in Wales, was open to both male and female Santas in full costume. Tim Davies, a farmer, was the first male Santa to cross the finish line, with a of time of 21 minutes, 16 seconds. Annie Lander was the first female Santa and she ran the course in 26 minutes. (continued)
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• In December of 2001, organizers at Guinness World Records sponsored the first ever “Santathon” to find out who the world’s best Santa is. The event, held in England, included a field of eight top contenders in full beards, red suits, and black boots, battling it out for the title. Competitive events included sack-hauling, pie eating, chimney climbing, stocking filling, and ho-hohoing. In the end, David Broughton-Davis from Croydon, a professional Santa for Selfridges, (a department store in London) was awarded the title of Britain’s Ultimate Santa. “I just wish that the pie-eating hadn’t taken place before the chimney climb,” he said after being awarded the Golden Boots trophy. • The TeePee Garden Center in Franklin Park, Pennsylvania had a Christmas display set up which included Donner and Blitzen, two tame reindeer rented from a nearby farm. When a gate was left open during feeding time shortly before Christmas, the reindeer wandered away. Donner was captured, but Blitzen ran off. Everyone’s worst fears were realized the next day when a local man grabbed his gun and shot what he thought was a really large deer about a half mile away from the garden center. Law enforcement officials were reluctant to file charges because reindeer are not covered under local hunting regulations. • Dunsley Hall Country House Hotel in England once offered just the thing for people who were sick and tired of Christmas: a 3-night, 4-day “Bah Humbug!” Christmas get-away. For about $500 per person, kill-joys heard carols sung out of tune, ate cold sandwiches for Christmas dinner, received gifts of socks, underwear, ties, and bath salts, threw decorations into a bonfire, and joined in a toast to Ebenezer Scrooge. “Some people just want to get away from the normal festivities and don’t feel like celebrating Christmas,” said a spokeswoman for the hotel.
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