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LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Ruth Handler, who created
Barbie, the world’s most popu
lar doll and an American icon
that helped shape girls’ dreams
while infuriating feminists, has
died. She was 85.
Handler, who also co
founded the Mattel toy compa
ny, died at Century City
Hospital Saturday morning of
complications from colon sur
gery she underwent three
months ago, said Elliot
Handler, her husband.
Handler’s creation,
for her daughter
was introduced in
has become a touch-
Since
named
Barbara,
1959 it
stone of cultural politics.
The impossibly well-
endowed doll — her original
figure would be about 39-18-
33 if she were human — has
drawn the ire of feminists,
inspired artists and intrigued
academics around the world.
Barbie even was placed in the
official “America’s Time
Capsule” buried in 1976.
The original blue-eyed,
blonde fashion model has mor
phed over the decades into a
variety of ethnic looks and has
had many careers, from astro
naut to veterinarian.
More than 1 billion have
been sold in 150 countries.
”My whole philosophy of
Barbie was that through the
doll, the little girl could be
anything she wanted to be,”
Handler wrote in a 1994 auto
biography. “Barbie always
represented the fact that a
woman has choices.”
With the new doll, girls
could play out their dreams of
adolescence and beyond.
Barbie, after all, could go to
the prom, get married, or even
travel to the moon.
“Over and over I’ve had it
said to me by women.”
Handler told The Associated
Press in 1994. “She was much
more than a doll for them. She
was part of them.” Handler
kept a gold-plated Barbie in
her Century City high-rise.
Barbie’s birth came at a
time when the usual doll was a
baby. Handler decided to cre
ate a more mature plaything —
with breasts, as she once put it
— after noticing that her
daughter liked to play with
paper cutout dolls of teen
agers and career women.
Mattel’s male ad executives
were unimpressed witM
but several years later J
got the doll into produ.
Her concept was iikl!
a sexy German precurs'J
Lilli, based on a comic J
Barbie was more ;•
The 11 1/2-inch-tall pli,
was a fresh-faced Mfc..
with a ponytail andabtaj
white striped swimsuit.
Barbie debuted a.
American Toy Fair inNV
City in 1959. She was an
hit and in the first year::
dolls were sold at S3ead
Barbie went on toi
fortune for Mattel, win
not only versions of tki
but an expanding nui
outfits and accessories
mention Barbie's boy:
Ken. named for Handler
her little sister, Skipfen
pals Midge and Christie
Later dolls were nar:
Handler’s grandchildre:
Handler was bora
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children of Polish inn::
who settled in Dem:
moved to Southern Call
at 19. later marrying be
school boyfriend and stt
industrial design.
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Russians protest Catholic pom
MOSCOW (AP) — About 1,500 people gath
ered in downtown Moscow Sunday to protest the
rising profile of the Roman Catholic Church in
Russia.
Similar rallies took place in 25 other Russian
cities, the news agency Interfax reported.
The rallies underlined rising tensions over the
dominant Russian Orthodox Church’s contention
that the Vatican is poaching on its traditional ter
ritory. The Orthodox Church was especially
angered by the Vatican's decision this year to
upgrade four apostolic administrations in Russia
to full dioceses.
At the Moscow rally, on Slavya:
Square, protesters held posters re;
“Vatican Out.” The rally was organizedl’l
Union of Orthodox Citizens and the Pet
Party of Russia.
In April, the bishop of one oftheditv
Polish citizen Jerzy Mazur, was deniedeuirj
Russia. Another foreign priest, Italia
Stefano Caprio, w ho has parishes in»’
Russia had his visa removed while leavingE
and has been refused a new one to re-enir j
Russian Orthodox Church has denied conKj
to either incident.
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