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• A toy company trying to compete with the Barbie doll came out with the Tressy doll who had a hank of hair in the center of her head which could be hauled out and screwed back in. • In 1975 Mattel introduced a new doll called Growing Up Skipper. When the arm was twisted, the doll grew taller, developed an hourglass waist line, and sprouted breasts. Twist the arm again and the doll once again reverted to an adolescent ﬁgure. • In the late 1970s Ideal came out with a line of cherubic angel dolls. They were called Angel Babies and didn’t sell well because consumers thought of dead babies in heaven when they saw the name Angel Babies. • In 1958 Ideal came out with a Christ Child doll which came complete with kneeling Mary and Joseph dolls and a manger. Parents didn’t buy them because they couldn’t picture Christ attending tea parties with Raggedy Ann. • The anatomically correct Baby Brother Tenderlove doll caused such controversy that stickers were placed over the sensitive area on the package. (Cont’d next page)

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FAMOUS TOYS (cont’d) • Josh Cowen was always fascinated with toy trains. As a kid he fashioned an electric train that ran on a track around his bedroom, carrying his toys in its cars. Years later, he took his electric train to a man who owned several toy stores in New York, saying that if he placed the train in his front window during the Christmas season and loaded the cars with toys, this animated advertisement would increase sales of the toys. The shopkeeper agreed, bought the train from Josh, and set it up in his window. The next day Josh went down to the toy store to see his train in action and was shocked to see it was gone. The shopkeeper explained that people wanted to buy the train rather than the toys. He asked Josh if he could supply more toy trains, and Josh went to work on it. They sold as fast as he could make them. • In 1906 Josh started a company, which he named after his middle name. Soon his factory was turning out toy cattle cars, coal cars, passenger cars, train stations, tunnels, bridges, and more. When business dropped during the Great Depression, he invented a $1 windup handcar pumped by Mickey and Minnie Mouse. For a time in the 1950s, his company was the largest toy manufacturer in America. Josh’s middle name, carried on millions of toy trains, was Lionel. • The original Mr. Potato Head was a sack of plastic parts, and kids had to supply their own potato. Mothers, however, got tired of finding moldy potatoes under the bed and behind the couch, so a plastic potato was added to the kit. Mr. Potato Head was the first toy to be advertised on American television, appearing on the tube in 1952. Sales soared after Mr. Potato Head appeared in the 1995 film “Toy Story.” In 1997 Mr. Potato Head starred as the spokespotato for Burger King’s French fries.

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• Richard opened his own factory in Albany, New York, where he could turn out a Slinky in ﬁve seconds flat. Each was 2.5 inches tall, contained 80 feet of high-grade blue-black Swedish steel wire wrapped into 98 coils, and came packaged in simple box. The following year, the debut of the Slinky at the American Toy Fair in New York City ensured the success of the toy. By the end of 1947, the fad had swept the nation. • He sold over a billion of them at $1 each, raking in the revenue. Later he introduced other Slinky toys, such as the Slinky dog, the Slinky caterpillar, and the Slinky train. • But it was his wife Betty who carried the business when Richard abandoned the project, gave his entire fortune to charity, fled to Bolivia, and left her saddled in debt just as the fad was fading and sales were declining. • It was Betty James who commissioned a TV ad with a jingle that became the longest running jingle in the history of TV: “Everyone wants a Slinky; You want to get a Slinky.” She championed the plastic tangle-free version of the toy. She paid off the debt, reinvigorated sales, and negotiated a spot in the movie “Toy Story” which boosted sales once again. • All in all, she sold enough Slinkys to circle the Earth 121 times, earning herself a spot in the Toy Industry Association’s Hall of Fame. “The simplicity of the Slinky,” she told an AP reporter in 1995, “is what made it so successful.” In 1945, the Slinky sold for $1.00; by the late 90s, the same model sold for just 89 cents more. • Richard James died in Bolivia at the age of 56, but Betty James lived to the age of 90. She died in 1998, having revolutionized the business her husband started and abandoned.

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• In 1946 in the town of Mound, Minnesota, Lynn Baker and two of his friends started a business called the Mound Metalcraft Company. They owned metal-stamping equipment and produced garden tools such as rakes, shovels, and hoes. A neighboring firm that sold lumber products had attempted to branch out into selling toy metal trucks. The trucks didn’t sell as well as expected, but their lumber sales kept growing. The owner of the lumber company offered the rights to the toy truck to the Mound Metalcraft Company, and Baker thought the idea would make a good sideline. Garden tools sell well in the summer, but toys sell well in the winter, and soon they were manufacturing a toy steam shovel and a toy crane. • Baker attended the New York Toy Show in 1946 where he discovered there was a market for sturdy toys in the post-World War II baby boom. Soon demand for the toys outstripped the demand for the garden tools, so they designed more models such as dump trucks, fork lifts, and fire engines, eventually adding 125 different models to their inventory. Children loved them because they were realistic, and parents loved them because they were indestructible. Soon they were turning out 400,000 toys a week. • In 1955 the company’s name was changed. The Minnesota factory overlooked a lake, and part of the lake’s name came from the Sioux word meaning ‘great.’ Because the trucks were indeed a ‘great toy’ the name was appropriate, and that’s how Tonka Trucks were named after Lake Minnetonka. • Over a quarter million Tonka trucks have been sold since 1947. If you lined them all up, they would stretch from Rhode Island to Los Angeles and back again eight times.

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• After World War II, Leslie and Rodney went into business together in England, combining their first names to form Lesney Products. They bought surplus die-casting machines and began turning out industrial parts. Later they hired Jack Odell, who began designing die casts for toy vehicles, modeling them after a line of toy trucks called Dinky Toys. • In 1950 the company was just about to release a toy wedding coach when disaster struck: the Korean War began. Zinc, essential in the die casting process, was no longer available because it was needed for the war. The wedding coach was mothballed and the company struggled, turning out tin toys instead. • In 1952 the ban on zinc was lifted. Just then Britain’s King George VI died, and his daughter Elizabeth succeeded him as queen. Lesney decided to transform the wedding coach into a coronation coach, and the new toy was released just before Elizabeth ascended the throne. • The first version of the coach was 15 inches (38 cm) long and they sold well. Odell’s daughter wanted to take one to school for show-and-tell, but the teacher would only allow children to bring items that were small enough to fit into a standard box of matches. Odell subsequently designed a coronation coach that was less than two inches (5 cm) long. The company sold over a million. They shrank all of their toy vehicles to this size, selling them for 40 cents. They were wildly popular. And because of the teacher’s prohibition against toys bigger than a matchbox, the tiny vehicles were dubbed Matchbox toys. • Over 12,000 different models have been released over the years. The company is now owned by Mattel.

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Can Heart Surgery Cause Hot Flashes?

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have had hot flashes, similar to those experienced by post-menopausal women, ever since my coronary bypass in 1990. I can be sitting quietly in a chair reading or at my computer, and suddenly I find myself dripping with perspiration. I also have had panic attacks, with increased heart rate and other physical symptoms. A few years ago, a 24-hour EKG showed heart-rhythm irregularities and that my heart stopped briefly while asleep. If these idiosyncrasies of my autonomic nervous system are a consequence of my time on the heart-lung machine for the bypass, I’m not complaining -- just curious. You said that studies have been done on almost everything. Is this one? -- W.S.B.

ANSWER: I found that a lot of people complain of similar symptoms. I also found that, indeed, the autonomic nervous system (the part of the nervous system that regulates temperature, sweat, blood pressure and many other critical aspects of body function without our being consciously aware of it) can be adversely affected by cardiac surgery. Some authors have suggested that the autonomic nervous system changes are one mechanism by which people are more likely to have depression after cardiac surgery. I found several possible explanations why the ANS changes with bypass surgery, but no clear consensus. I would want to be sure that there are no other causes of these symptoms. It sounds like you have had an extensive evaluation, but I certainly would be concerned about a sudden fast heart rhythm, such as atrial ﬁbrillation. The booklet on abnormal heart rhythms explains atrial ﬁbrillation and the more common heart rhythm disturbances in greater detail. Readers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Roach -- No. 107W, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6. Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. DEAR DR. ROACH: Can you explain the condition known as “stone shoulder”? I am a man, 67 years old, and I believe I have it. I spent 45 years as a TV news photographer, handling heavy cameras, tripods, etc. -- B.J. ANSWER: “Stone shoulder” is a new one for me. Maybe you mean frozen shoulder, a condition also called “adhesive capsulitis.” It’s not a strictly accurate term, since the loss of movement the name implies is gradual. It starts with shoulder pain, often worse at night, lasting for months. Stiffness develops, and then the loss of shoulder movement can be severe. A careful physical exam by a regular doctor, a rheumatologist or sports medicine doctor, or an orthopedic surgeon can make the diagnosis. Often, the doctor will inject a steroid and anesthetic into the shoulder: The pain relief and improved movement within a minute make the diagnosis. I refer patients to physical therapy for a gradually increasing exercise regimen. Sometimes, additional injections are necessary. In your case, I would worry about a rotator cuff tear or inflammation, which you also might have acquired while doing your job. A careful exam usually can distinguish these. Occasionally, an MRI is required. Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2015 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

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1. In 2014, Raul Ibanez became the oldest player in Royals history to hit a triple (age 42). Who had been the oldest? 2. Between 2006-2015, how many major-league teams won at least 100 games in a season? 3. When was the last time the Dallas Cowboys were in an NFC Championship Game? 4. Name three of the five freshmen to win the NCAA Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player award in men’s basketball. 5. When was the last time before 2015 that the first five games of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals were each decided by one goal? 6. Who is the only athlete to win a medal in six consecutive Winter Olympics? 7. When was the last time before 2015 that LSU won the NCAA Division I men’s golf championship? . (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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* Candles will burn more evenly if you refrigerate them for a few hours before lighting. * “To make your drains fresh-smelling, shake a half-cup of baking soda into the drain. Then pour 2 cups of vinegar that you have warmed on the stove. It will froth and bubble. When it’s done, run the hot water and give it a little scrub.” -- R.C. in Idaho * Visit the dollar store for low-cost toys to use on car or airplane trips. You can get several busy toys and dole them out one at a time. Most parents will attest to what a lifesaver this can be. * “When planning to visit my hometown for the holidays, I set aside a few hours to take the kids to the park or a nice playground. Then I

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message all my old friends and classmates with kids (Facebook is great for this) a few weeks ahead of time and let them know when I will be there. It’s great to catch up while the kids play, and even if no one shows up, we still have a fun break.” -- F.L. in California * Cookie sheets make great temporary mud and moisture trays for dirty shoes. Stash one at the entry to your home, and you will have less dirt tracked across your floors. * “Keep knitting yarn in check with empty tissue boxes. Set your yarn ball inside the box, and let the string lead out of the top. When not in use, tape the string to the side of the box. Boxes can be stacked and stored for future projects.” -- C.W. in Indiana

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When Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title in 1967 for dodging the Vietnam War draft, he was, without question, the greatest fighter in the world. He had just dismantled Cleveland Williams, Ernie Terrell and Zora Folley -- three fights that stand as clinics, all of them must-sees for any fight fan. But time has a way of wearing a man down. When Ali was cleared to fight again he had lost nearly four years of legs. His return to the ring saw him dismantle a bloodied Jerry Quarry, stopping him with a vicious cut in just the third round. Waiting in the wings for Ali was the muchoverlooked standing champion: Joe Frazier. Ali was not yet the people’s champ. His draft dodging, combined with a brash, outspoken demeanor and views that many found unpatriotic, saw him vilified by press and fans alike. Still, he had never lost his belt in the ring and held a record of 31-0 by the spring of 1971. Frazier, on the other hand, had none of the charisma or charm that Ali possessed, but he did have a hell of a left hook and was unbeaten at 26-0. The two met in Madison Square Garden in March of that same year. The fight lasted 15 rounds and it went to the scorecards, but there was little doubt in the minds of the 20,455 in attendance who witnessed the spectacle that night: The great Ali lost. There was no doubt. Frazier floored him in the final round. “The Greatest” of all times was, after all, beatable. In the world of mixed martial arts and in a world starved of the kind of stardom that Ali, Frazier and their contemporaries supplied, Ronda Rousey was the most popular fighter in the world when she stepped into the ring in Australia on Nov. 14. She was to face another unbeaten woman, Holly Holm. Like Frazier, Holm was overlooked. She had never lost a fight, but had been a boxing champion. She was attractive but not a “Hollywood” starlet -- something Rousey was able to be in her spare time. Rousey, from Venice Beach, California, could be seen knocking out Turtle from “Entourage,” tossing Michael Strahan to the ground in front of a giggling Kelly Ripa and sitting in on “The View.” Holm, meanwhile, kept her mouth shut and trained for the fight of her life. Holm, an 800-point underdog according to the odds makers in Vegas, stunned the world when she floored Rousey in 59 seconds into the second round at UFC 193. Like Frazier, Holm was a striker, and she managed to hit Rousey in the head with full power 29 times, many sustained by Rousey as she lay flat on her back, the clock ticking on her reign as champion. The parallels between the two fights and the four fighters are striking. There must be a rematch. The world did not so much lose or gain a new champion that night in Australia ... it merely punched its ticket for a possible Thrilla in Manilla, the kind of epic that hasn’t been seen in a very, very long time.

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Meatloaf Mash-Up Combines Leftovers Nothing says comfort, security and home like an old-fashioned meal of meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Try this tasty supper with your family, or better yet, invite another family over to enjoy this generous-size recipe of OutsideInside Meatloaf. We call it the all-in-one vegetable/potato/ meatloaf, because when you slice the main dish, the kids discover that everything is hidden inside -- everything, that is, except the salad and bread, which your guests could bring to complete this fabulous “let’s get together” meal. It’s also the perfect solution for using Thanksgiving meal leftovers. Extra portions of mashed potatoes, peas and corn are the perfect ingredients to complete this recipe. Even the day-old dinner rolls are useful. They’re all part of the mix.

FRENCH 500 FREE CLINIC Thursday, December 10th from 1 to 4 PM FREE CLINIC FOR THE UNINSURED AND UNDER-INSURED. The French 500 Free Clinic will be open for those who do not have medical insurance or are under-insured from 1 - 4 PM on Thursday, December 10 at 258 Pinecrest Drive in the old Hillcrest Clinic off of Jackson Pike in Spring Valley next to the Arbors Nursing Home. No appointment is necessary. The volunteer medical doctors and nurses are happy to serve free of charge the residents of Southeastern Ohio and Mason County, WV and beyond over the age of six. Phone 740-446-0021. This is the only Free Clinic scheduled for December, 2015 because of the Christmas Season.

OUTSIDE-INSIDE MEATLOAF MASH-UP 2 pounds lean ground beef 2 eggs, slightly beaten 2 cups fresh or packaged breadcrumbs 2 tablespoon tomato paste 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper 3 cups prepared mashed potatoes 1 cup cooked peas or corn 1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese Ketchup or mustard for drizzling on top 1. Heat oven to 350 F. 2. In a large bowl, with very clean hands, let your child thoroughly mix together the meat, eggs, breadcrumbs, tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce and seasonings. 3. Place on a large sheet of parchment or wax paper and form a 9-inch-by-12-inch rectangle. Use a rolling pin to make it even and smooth. 4. Spread the potatoes over the meat with a spatula, leaving a 1-inch border all around. Top with vegetable and cheese. 5. With adult assistance, your child can roll up the large meatloaf lengthwise, lifting up the paper to get it started. Remove paper and place the meatloaf seam-side down on a foil-lined baking pan. Pat it together ﬁrmly, pinch ends closed and drizzle ketchup or mustard on top. 6. Bake uncovered for 1 to 1 1/4 hours, or until completely done. Remove from oven and let rest for 10 minutes before transferring to a large serving platter for slicing. Serves 8. Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide. To ﬁnd more of her creative family recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday.com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.” (c) 2015 Donna Erickson Distributed by King Features Synd.

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“Leftover” Mashed-Potato Pancakes

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A great way to use leftover potatoes. In fact, make extra so you can enjoy this easy dish a second time. 1 1/2 cups mashed potatoes 2 tablespoons plain dried breadcrumbs 1 tablespoon freshly grated Parmesan cheese 1 tablespoon butter or margarine 1. With hands, shape potatoes into eight 2-inch patties. On waxed paper, combine breadcrumbs and Parmesan. Coat patties with breadcrumb mixture, patting crumbs to cover. 2. Heat nonstick 10-inch skillet over medium heat; melt butter. Add patties and cook until golden and heated through, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Makes 4 servings. * Each serving: About 129 calories, 3g protein, 16g carbohydrate, 7g total fat (3g saturated), 11mg cholesterol, 319mg sodium. For thousands of triple-tested recipes, visit our website at www.goodhousekeeping.com/ recipeﬁnder/. (c) 2015 Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved

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* On Dec. 11, 1918, author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is born in the Caucasus Mountains in Russia. The publication of parts of “The Gulag Archipelago” in Paris in 1973 led to Solzhenitsyn’s arrest and exile in 1974. * On Dec. 10, 1901, the first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, as Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, had directed in his will. It is believed that he did so out of moral regret over the increasingly lethal uses of his inventions in war. * On Dec. 9, 1921, General Motors engineers discover that leaded gas reduces “knock” in auto engines, eliminating the pinging sounds. Ethyl alcohol also worked, and it was cheap -- however, anyone with an ordinary still could make it, which meant that GM could not patent it or profit from it. * On Dec. 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese warplanes attack the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing more than 2,400 naval and military personnel. The U.S. declared war against Japan the following day. * On Dec. 12, 1980, American oil tycoon Armand Hammer pays $5 million at auction for a notebook containing writings by Leonardo da Vinci. In 1994, the book was sold to Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, for $30.8 million. Gates has since loaned the manuscript to a number of museums for public display. * On Dec. 8, 1993, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by President Bill Clinton. NAFTA eliminated all tariffs and trade restrictions between the U.S., Canada and Mexico. * On Dec. 13, 2003, in Seattle, the iconic Hat ‘n’ Boots Tex Gas Station is hauled away for restoration. The 44-footÐwide Stetson hat had perched atop the filling station’s office, while the 22-footÐtall cowboy boots had housed the men’s and women’s restrooms since 1955. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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