If you want to terrify your neighborhood this Halloween, you might go for the old standbys like skeletons or zombies. But you don’t have to go gory to find glory. Consider the talking doll. Those ...

I'm so old, I can remember back in the ’60s when the next-door neighbor girl, Annie Kessler, got an amazing new doll from Santa that was so unique, eventually the whole neighborhood turned out just to ...

First there was the Betsy Wetsy doll. You fed her water from a baby bottle and it dribbled out from a pinhole somewhere below. At least two generations of little girls grew up with incontinent Betsy.

Shirley Temple. Betsy McCall. Madame Alexander. Betsy Wetsy. Raggedy Ann and Andy. Kewpie. Barbie. To some, these doll names just evoke fond memories of childhood playtime. To members of the ...