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Elliot Handler : ウィキペディア英語版 | Elliot Handler
Elliot Handler (April 9, 1916 – July 21, 2011) was an American inventor, businessman, and co-founder of Mattel. With his wife, he developed some of the biggest-selling toys in American history, including Barbie, Chatty Cathy, Creepy Crawlers, and Hot Wheels. ==Early life== Handler was born to a Jewish family〔(Jewish Telegraph: "The Eulogizer: Elliot Handler, Barbie’s ‘dad,’ and more on alleged mobster Francois Abutbul" By Alan D. Abbey ) August 9, 2011〕 in Chicago, Illinois, on April 9, 1916, and grew up in Denver, Colorado. He studied industrial design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In 1929, he met his future wife Ruth Moskowicz at a B'nai B'rith dance for teenagers.〔 They later married and had two children: a daughter, Barbara who is the namesake of Barbie dolls; and a son, Ken (who died of a brain tumor in 1994) who was the namesake of Ken dolls.〔(People: "As a Tiny Plastic Star Turns 30, the Real Barbie and Ken Reflect on Life in the Shadow of the Dolls" By Michelle Green and Denise Gellene ) March 06, 1989〕 While a struggling art student and designer of light fixtures, Handler partnered with Harold Matson, to design a realistic-looking miniature piano that earned roughly 300,000 orders, however, they mispriced the product and lost a dime on each one produced.〔
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