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24 Ryan "had a funny little body . . .": Interview with Gwen Davis, New York City, January 13, 1993.
24 Details of Ryan house: See Richard Warren Lewis, "Jack Ryan and Zsa Zsa: A Millionaire Inventor and His Hungarian Barbie Doll," People, July 14, 1975, pp. 60-63. Also, interview with Bill Smedley (one of the engineers who briefly lived in Jack's castle), San Bernadino County, California, Mav 2, 1993.
25 "He ruined a perfectly good . . .": Interview with Nonna Greene, Bel-Air, California, October 30, 1992.
25 "torture chamber," "Jack's sex life would have made the average Penthouse reader blanch with shock": Zsa Zsa Gabor, One Lifetime Is Not Enough (New York: Delacorte Press, 1991), p. 235.
25 The birth of the Bild Lilli doll: See Billy Boy, Barbie, Her Life and Times Motivated (New York: Crown Publishers, 1987), p. 19.
26 "We had a fight . . ." ("Wir hatten Streit miteinander, und da hat er mir alle Geschenke wieder abgenommen.,T): Lilli, Bild Zeitung, June 26, 1952.
26 ". . . and in your opinion what should I take off?" {"Und welchen Ted soil ich dann Ihrer Meinung nach ausziehen?'): Lilli, Bild Zeitung, July 26, 1953.
26 "Can't you give me the name . . ." ("Konnen Sie mir nicht Namen und Adresse dieses grossen, schbnen, reichen Mannes sagen?"): Lilli, Bild Zeitung, June 24, 1952.
26 Sculpted by Max Weissbrot: Billy Boy, op. cit., p. 19. 26 Images from Lilli promotional brochure, 1955.
27 "I saw it once in a guy's car . . . They were lifting up her skirts and pulling down her pants and stuff": Interview with Cy Schneider, NewYork City, June 26, 1992. (All Schneider quotations are from this interview.)
31 "The Lilli doll looked kind of mean. . . And Japanese people didn't like it at all.": Interview with Frank Nakamura, Santa Monica, California, September 19, 1992. (All Nakamura quotations are from this interview.)
34 "She was very resourceful . . .":Interview with Seymour Adler, Los Angeles, September 16, 1992; telephone interview, July 28, 1993. (All Adler quotations are from these interviews.)
34 The men "would go out to get bombed . . ." and other Japanese business practices: Telephone interview with Lawanna Adams, October 7, 1992.
35 "I think Japan was the perfect place . . .": Interview with Joe Cannizzaro, El Segundo, California, September 21, 1992. (All Cannizzaro quotations are from this interview.)
36 Ernest Dichter and motivational research: See Vance Packard, The Hidden Persuaders (New York: PocketBooks, 1981). (Dichter appears throughout the book; his research methods are discussed on page 29.)
36 "All you care about is having people come to the U.S. who have rich relatives": Ernest Dichter, Getting Motivated (New York: Pergamon Press,1979), p. 29.
37 "didn't dare" say . . . "naked girls" sold the magazine: Ibid., p. 34. (All references to Dichter's marketing strategy and psychoanalytic take on merchandise are from this book.)
37 Dichter's "depth interviews": Packard, op. cit., p. 29.
37 "He never asked a direct question": Interview with Hedy Dichter, Croton-on-Hudson, New York, August 10, 1993.
38 "Properly manipulated . . . American housewives can be given a sense of identity . . . by the buying of things": Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: Dell Publishing, 1984), p. 208. (Dichter referred to as "The manipulator," p. 211.)
38 Size of toy study control group: See Ernest Dichter, ed., A Motivational Research Study in the Field of Toys for Mattel Toys, Inc. Unpublished study prepared by the Institute for Motivational Research, Inc., Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., June 1959. p. 5.
38 "The big long gun satisfies his need for power": Ibid., p. 122.
38 "Adults frown upon doll play on the part of little boys . . .": Ibid., p. 23.
39 Is Barbie "a nice kid . . . or a little too flashy?": Ibid., p. 7.
39 "should the wardrobe be sophisticated, even wicked?": Ibid., p. 6.
39 "the gift psychology of the adult . . . Are men afraid of their wives" taunts should they bring home a 'sexy' doll?": Ibid., p. 7.
39 "I know little girls want dolls with high heels