Dangerous toys ain’t what they used to be

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I just got an e-mail inviting me to a conference call about the “trade of deadly consumer products”—in particular, tainted Halloween toys. Yes, ’tis the season for missives about unsafe toys to hit my inbox like so many lumps of coal in a non-denominational stocking. Still, all danger is relative, as this old list of very bad toys proves. When I was about 8 years old (William Henry Harrison was president), I learned a valuable lesson about unsafe toys.

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