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	Ruth Handler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ruth Handler (November 4, 1916 - April 27, 2002) was an American businesswoman, the president of the toy manufacturer Mattel, Inc., and is remembered primarily for her role in marketing the Barbie doll.
		She was born Ruth Mosko in Denver, Colorado, the youngest daughter of 10 children born to Polish Jewish immigrants, Jacob Joseph Mosko and his wife, née Ida Rubenstein.
		Ruth Handler had stated that she thought it "was important to a girl's esteem that she play with a doll with breasts," and Barbie was certainly qualified to be that doll.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruth_Handler (518 words)

	Barbie Doll
		Ruth Handler thought of the idea of the glamorous Barbie fashion doll and also named it for her young daughter.
		Ruth was born in Denver, Colorado, and married her high school sweetheart in 1938.
		Ruth was unable to find breast prosthesis that was natural and comfortable, she worked with prosthetic designer Peyton Massey and some retired Mattel technicians to develop the Nearly Me line of breast prostheses for mastectomies.
	www.sjmv.org /Campus/Class/scinventors/Barbiedoll/ruthhandler.html (818 words)

	Mattel, Inc.: Investor Relations
		Ruth Handler, who captured the imaginations of generations of girls all over the world as the creator of the Barbie doll, died Saturday, April 27, 2002, at Century City Hospital in Los Angeles.
		Ruth Handler was one of the most successful pioneers of women in business, forging a path to the top of the corporate ladder at a time when few women dared to attempt a career as a top-level business executive.
		Handler was born Ruth Mosko, the tenth and final child of Polish immigrants, in Denver, Colo., on Nov. 4, 1916.
	www.shareholder.com /mattel/news/20020428-79086.cfm (1148 words)

	Ruth Handler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was the great insight of Ruth Handler, who has died at age 85, that it is not only lusty swains who are enamored of the perky bust.
		But Handler hit a bump when she was convicted on charges that she had manipulated the value of Mattel's stock, in 1978.
		Handler liked to say that she ran her career "from breast to breast," and her next marketing success was in the field of prosthetics.
	www.goodbyemag.com /apr02/handler.html (1223 words)

	Inventor Ruth Handler Biography
		Ruth Handler undeniably invented an American icon that functions as both a steady outlet for girls' dreams and an ever changing reflection of American society.
		In 1959, Ruth Handler became convinced, from watching her daughter, Barbara, play with paper dolls, that girls use dolls to act out future, rather than current, roles.
		Ruth Handler invented something in 1959 which became so quintessentially American as to be included in the official "America's Time Capsule" buried at the celebration of the Bicentennial in 1976: the Barbie doll.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/handler.htm (1558 words)

	Who Made America? \| Innovators \| Ruth Handler
		Ruth Moskowicz was born into a family of Russian Jewish immigrants in Denver, Colorado in 1916.
		During World War II, the Handlers started a company, Mattel, combining Elliot's name with the last name of their partner, Harold Matson.
		In the early 1970s, Handler was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/handler_hi.html (385 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Handler sensed that it was just as important for girls to imagine what they themselves might grow up to become as it was for them to focus on what caring for children might be like.
		Handler took her idea to the ad executives at Mattel Corp., the company that she and her husband, Elliot, had founded in their garage some years before: the (all-male) committee rejected the idea as too expensive, and with little potential for wide market appeal.
		Ruth Handler undeniably invented an American icon that functions as both a steady cynosure for girls' dreams and an ever changing reflection of American society.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/handler.html (517 words)

	Ruth Handler: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ruth Handler (November 4, EHandler: no quick summary.
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		Ruth Handler says that when she bought Lilli for her daughter, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/ruth_handler.htm (1019 words)

	Ruth Handler
		Ruth actively spoke out about her life and her experiences with cancer.
		Ruth was in charge of sales, marketing, and the business aspects of the company.
		In 1976, Ruth Handler founded her second business, NEARLY ME® Inc. She created the first breast form that specifically fit the right or left side of the body, came in familiar bra sizes and followed the natural slope of the actual breast.
	www.nearlyme.org /html/ruth_handler.html (548 words)

	Barbie Doll History - Invention of the Barbie Doll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She was Barbara Handler, the daughter of Ruth and Elliot Handler.
		Ruth Handler is lovingly known to the world as the "Barbie doll's mom." This site is slow loading.
		Ruth Handler struggles to survive both professionally as one of the first American women to run a major company in the 1950’s and personally in her battle with breast cancer.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/story081.htm (1828 words)

	D2 Press- Cool Dead People - Ruth Handler Mattel founder and Barbie creator
		I know realistically that Barbie can't talk to me. I also know that her mother, Ruth Handler, is dead, so even if Barbie could hear me, unless she's got connections to a good psychic, she would not be able to get the message to Ruth.
		Ruth's son, Ken, was no longer alive, but Ruth's daughter, Barbara, was somewhere in California as far as I knew.
		Ruth Handler started out with a dream--gave us a doll with breasts, lost her own--then gave us hopes of creating our own dreams.
	www.doubledarepress.com /2002/11/columns/dead-people2.shtml (1580 words)

	Mattel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was founded in 1945 by Elliot Handler and Harold "Matt" Matson (hence the name "matt-el").
		Elliott Handler's wife Ruth Handler would later become president, and is credited with establishing the Barbie product line for the company in 1959.
		The Barbie and Ken dolls are named after the Handler children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mattel (302 words)

	JWA Presents "This Week in History" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although Barbie has been roundly condemned by feminists as promoting an unrealistic body shape to young girls, Handler originally conceived the doll as a way for girls to imagine their futures as adult women.
		Handler has received numerous awards for her accomplishments.
		Ruth Mosko Handler died in 2002, but Barbie lives on, with more than 100 million sold annually.
	www.jwa.org /this_week/week10.html (1806 words)

	Mattel. Inc. Toy Company Stock Certificate (Ruth Handler as President)
		This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of two kids playing on clouds on both sides of the old Mattel Logo and a globe of the world.
		This item has the printed signatures of the Company’s President, Ruth Handler and Secretary, T. Horwith and is over 34 years old.
		It was started in 1945 by founders Elliot Handler and Harold "Matt" Matson (hence the name 'matt-el').
	www.scripophily.net /matinctoycom.html (394 words)

	Alibris: Ruth Handler
		The remarkable true story of "Barbie's Mom", Ruth Handler--who, 35 years ago, battled sexism and scorn to design and launch the most popular toy in history.
		Handler candidly relates how, at the height of her success, she was struck by breast cancer and returned to the business world to market her personally designed breast prosthesis.
		by Ethlie A. Vare, Greg Ptacek, Ruth Handler (Adapted by)
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Ruth_Handler (173 words)

	Famous Faces of Breast Cancer - breast cancer support group, cancer survivors - Healing Ribbons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Her brave and public struggle with the disease paved the way and made it possible for other women to seek comfort in each other in what had before been an intensely private issue.
		Ruth Handler - Handler, the creator of the Barbie Doll, was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy in the 1970’s.
		Following her operation, which she found quite dehabiliating, she resigned as President of Mattel and began a company called "Nearly Me", which manufactured prosthetic limbs;
	www.healingribbons.net /famous_survivors.htm (853 words)

	Barbie - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When in Europe, she noticed a German doll named Lilli and bought it for Barbara.
		It was marketed to adults, not children: M. Lord, in her Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll, characterized the original doll as a "gag gift for men, a pornographic character."
		Ruth Handler and Elliott Handler, the co-founders of Mattel, bought the rights to market Lilli: with a hair color change from blonde to brunette, and a name change to Barbie (after Ruth's daughter Barbara) she was sold in the United States starting in 1959 at New York's annual Toy Fair.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Barbie (2244 words)

	April 27 Deaths in History
		April 27, 2002 Ruth Handler, inventor, invented Barbie, dies at 85
		April 27, 1964 Georg Britting, writer, dies at 73
		April 27, 1961 Roy Del Ruth, director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67
	www.brainyhistory.com /daysdeath/death_april_27.html (740 words)

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