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“Playmakers,” reviewed: The race to give every child a toy

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Re: “Playmakers,” reviewed: The race to give every child a toy

#9
( Describing a bear )

“A tracker caught one for him, bopped it on the head with his rifle, and tied it to a tree.“

Everything the writer said after that was questionable to me. Maybe too flippant just once, I wonder how much actual truth was in every sentence.

Re: “Playmakers,” reviewed: The race to give every child a toy

#10

( Describing a bear ) “A tracker caught one for him, bopped it on the head with his rifle, and tied it to a tree.“ Everything the writer said after that was questionable to me. Maybe too flippant just once, I wonder how much actual truth was in every sentence.

That was the story that was current back then, at least the tying to a tree part. It may have been invented, but not by the New Yorker writer.