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The organization's general counsel, James F. Coffee, and accountant Ernest
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Marvin Glass and
Associates was founded in 1941. Its founder, Marvin Glass, was an entrepreneur and the creative force behind Marvin Glass and Associates. His salesmanship and uncanny ability to spark creativity in the designers he employed was unparalleled. In 1949, he licensed a "novelty item" to
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Marvin Glass died in 1974. Two years later, managing partner Anson
Isaacson, partner Joseph Callan and designer Kathy Dunn were shot and killed and two others seriously wounded at the company's offices in Chicago. The perpetrator was 33-year old Albert Keller, a designer suffering from paranoid
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and became such a hit that Lionel
Weintraub, its president, made it his company mascot and featured it in many of Ideal's early TV ads. The company became so successful that Marvin Glass got his company logo printed on every package for the items it invented and licensed.
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was a senior designer at Marvin Glass through the mid-1960s to early 1980s and invented or designed many of MGA's hottest items such as
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The company continued in operation until 1988. Several partners from Marvin Glass and
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1981 4 wheel drive toy used in Attak Trak (Masters of the
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named Lite-Brite one of the top 100 toys of all time.
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