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Jayne Mansfield
The American male's obsession with big breasts found its perfect incarnation in the sumptuous 40-19-36 statistics of Jayne Mansfield, who shot to stardom in 1957 in Frank Tashlin's rock & roll comedy The Girl Can't Help...
Tupperware Parties
Tupperware, a company making plastic kitchen containers and other domestic items, always concentrated on selling its products through party-plan selling, allowing housewives to buy the products in the comfort of their own homes at Tupperware...
Dinky Toys
In 1931, British toymaker Frank Hornby - already a household name with his pre-war invention 'Mechanics Made Easy' sets (later and more commonly known as Meccano) - introduced a range of lead figures to accompany...
Joe Meek
Acclaimed by many as the UK's Phil Spector, Joe Meek was born on 5 April 1929.
His first love from childhood had been electronics, and this stayed with him during his stint in the Royal Air Force...
Furby
A Furby is an American electronic robotic toy released in 1998 by Tiger Electronics.
It resembles a hamster or owl-like creature and went through a period of being a "must-have" toy following its holiday season launch,...
