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RANDALL CHASE Associated Press Writer
AP Online
09-15-1998
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ You can stretch it, bounce it, pull it apart and put it back together again. After going nowhere as a World War II rubber substitute, Silly Putty celebrates its 50th anniversary next year as one of America's classic toys.

``It was a thinking kid's toy,'' said Peter Hodgson Jr., who teaches Russian literature at UCLA. ``The fact that it was a solid liquid, and the way it behaved in your hand. ... Part of its weirdness is that it had no use at all.''

``It's hard to imagine any other culture, any other ...

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