Instead we played with safer alternatives such as clackers, a toy made from two glass balls hard enough to concuss the Labrador Retriever and attached with a string. When dangled by holding the ...

He peddled ideas like "Bag-o-glass" and "Chainsaw Teddy Bear." But the real-world stuff was just as good. I came up during the popularity of "clackers," a pair of pool-ball-sized glass orbs linked ...