European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and strikes wednesday december 14,19b8 Day of horrible to led to the creation of season s hottest toy from press dispatches the creators of teen age mutant ninja turtles one of the holiest Selling cd Tsimas toys know what Lille boys want. Kids Are into slime said David Valentine a toy Industry analyst. Any thing to Gross out their Lillo the tour turtles wielding ii Inja weapons have hit no. Ii in the toy & Hobby world charts of Best Sellers just four years after they were conceived by Ptter Laird and Kevin Eastman during a Tny at watching horrible television in Northampton mass. It s insane said Eastman 26. Pete and i really had no idea what we were unleashing we were a isl iwo Willij cycad kids who just wanted to do comic books. Kumim then an occasional student at the University of Massachusetts said he tracked Down Laird who was scrap ing out a living by drawing illustrations for local newspapers in 1982 because their cartoons looked alike. The turtles were created after what Eastman called a heavy dose of to. Hooker and love boat in an apart ment the women shared while Laird was still free Lancing cartoons and Eastman worked in a restaurant. We had been watching a Bunch of horrible to and we started drawing and throwing the stuff at each of her Eastman said we found we had this Little Easlic thai we really Feti in love with the beast soon had three Brothers. All named after Renaissance artists and a weird history involving a Pool of goo in a new York sewer Ana a rat with the Powers of a ninja master their creators scraped together 11.200 and printed 3,000 copies of the first teen age mutant ninja turtles comic Book. The comics sold out in three weeks and Leonardo Donal Elln Michelangelo and Raphael found additional Fame on to shirts Cereal boxes and saturday morning television. Dear Santa. Some Maryland lawmakers might think he s been More naughty than Nice but car. William Donald Schaefer Lold Santa he at least tried to be Good this year. But even if Santa sides with the governor hell have a difficult Lime gelling everything Schaefer wants for Christmas Down the Chimney of the governor s mansion. In his letter to Santa Schaefer ticked off a 17-Point wish list that included better medical care and housing More resources to help the disadvantaged better fishing in the Chesapeake Bay and a professional football team. He also said he would t mind win Ning the slate lottery. Hair raising bet Nell Billle wis., radio sports director Al Len co thought he made a Safe bet but it turned out to be a hair Rais ing experience. On a a can talk show last week the former Minnesota resident flippantly said he would shave his head if inc Green Bay packers beat the favored Minnesota Vikings in a National foot Ball league am sunday. Hacko said he was at the game in Green Bay which ended in an 18-6 Packer Victory and cried his Way plenty of onlookers at a tavern in Cills Villa Hacko made Good on his bet monday but kept his Mustache he said his new haircut shows How raced. Ing his hairline really is. Expensive Esson a College football player from Mississippi Learned the hard Way How expensive new York City can be. His teachers were a limousine Driver and a something s funny comedian Bob Hope and Singer Dolly parian share a private Volta White being Tado up at Reindeer for a skin an the Bab Hope Christmas spatial to be aired on a Britan tote Kiihn this week. Light fingered pickpocket. Wesley Walls the All american tight end from the University of Mississippi likened himself to Crocodile Dundee the movie character who visited new York from Austral. "1 went up there and Learned a Cou ple of lessons Walls recalled. He went to new York to be honoured last week As one of the National foot Ball foundation s scholar athletes. A limousine Driver charged him $85 for ride to a Manhattan hotel less than 10 Miles from the Airport and then a pickpocket took $180 from him at a disco. Reagans Yule card the eighth and final while House Christmas card president Reagan and his wife will mull to 125,000 of their closest friends shows the mansion s North entry hair festooned with red poinsettias and garlands of Holiday greens. Painted by Thomas William Jones of be Loci tic ssh the scene glimpsed through decorated Marble columns is of a gilded Mirror circa 1795, above a Able that president James Monroe Pur chased in 1817, the Point Colias stand beneath the table. 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