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...AIMEZ-MOI By Caron; recalls Lolita Lempicka Key notes: Anise, clove, violet leaf, tonka bean, heliotrope, musk, amber Dubin: "I imagine myself in Venice, dancing at a masked ball with a handsome stranger...
...Valentine’s Day has kind of screwed itself over. Paper cards, stale candy, and the cheapest flower that money can buy: it’s inherently kind of insulting to receive these things in earnest from someone you’re romantically involved with. But getting a Tonka truck Valentine from your best friend or a yellow carnation with “Please fix me up with your brother at Loyola” is hilarious and—dare I say it?—heartwarming...
Mike McCall knew at age 14 he wanted to work in the mines. Chalk it up to a fascination with those "big Tonka toys" used to haul away coal, he says. He wasn't afraid to be underground, either. One of his first engineering jobs was in Peabody's famous Mine No. 10, a massive seam running beneath Illinois. Today, old enough to have a teenage son of his own, he still mines coal, but for a different boss. He is spearheading the largest expansion of coal-fired electric plants in Texas history for energy giant TXU. "With 6 million...
...over-the-counter stocks was Span-America Medical Systems, a South Carolina manufacturer of foam pads for hospital beds whose shares jumped from 3 1/8 to 22. Also among the highflyers were the Gap, the casual-wear retailer, whose stock more than tripled, from 20 to 62; and Tonka, the Minnesota toymaker, whose Pound Puppies and Go-Bots carried its shares briskly along from 10 to 27. On the American Stock Exchange, American Medical Buildings, which had a close brush with bankruptcy in 1984, was the biggest of the big last year. It jumped from...
...earlier ages in favor of consumer electronics, trendy video games, PC software and the Internet. The notion that kids are growing more sophisticated and tech savvy, a trend called age compression, has bedeviled toy companies for at least a decade. While young children still role-play with dollhouses and Tonka trucks (and cheap plastic toys will always play their pacifying role on shopping trips), the market for action figures, for instance, used to be considered healthy for boys up to age 12. Now, the items are mainly marketed to boys 4 to 6, says Chris Byrne, an independent toy-industry...