For long weeks, debbie pond had heard her father tell stories of elves and dolls and toy soldiers bigger than any she ever had heard about before in all her two years. The one day, in 1954, Cal Pond, who is managing director of the Denver Retail Merchants Association, decided that the time had come to give his daughter a special treat. Off they went to a Denver University art studio where students had been working on a project which Mr. Pond had commissioned. Out of chicken wire, tinfoil and plastic they had created a host of huge characters to be hung for the holidays along 16th Street, Denver's main shopping thoroughfare. Clutching her own doll tightly, Debbie inspected the phantasmagoric figures in silent wonderment. Coming face to face with a 10-foot-high jack-in-the-box towering over her, she found her voice at last to utter a single word: "Daddy."
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