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Favorite childhood activity: Eating Play-Doh...
Thank you, Nancy Gibbs, for your essay "The Power of Play-Doh" [Dec. 21]. My suggestion for those looking to develop good toys: an advisory board of octogenarians who can remember the magic of Christmas when it was still a time for the child...
...transcend, their survival a testament to their purpose and power. The Babylonians played board games; the ancient Greeks had yo-yos. The Chinese were flying kites 3,000 years ago. Crayola crayons were first produced in 1903. In 1916, Frank Lloyd Wright's son John, inspired by the way his father had built an earthquake-resistant hotel in Tokyo, invented Lincoln Logs. And many great toys are accidents or improvisations, a serenade by kids whose first drum set is a wooden spoon and a tin pot. Play-Doh was invented as a wallpaper cleaner. In 1943 a Navy engineer trying...
Smiling faces, a steaming meal, and containers of Play-Doh greeted students who remained on campus over the Thanksgiving holiday at a celebration of the season in Eliot Dining Hall last Thursday evening...
After eating a delicious meal of turkey, stuffing, and macaroni and cheese, each person in attendance shared a Play-Doh creation—a model of the thing for which they were most thankful—in a large-scale rendition of a Miller family tradition...