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How a Stuffed Animal Named Billy Possum Tried—and Failed—to Replace the Teddy Bear as America's National Toy
The New Jersey Morning Call said Billy Possum had “a head that is likely to give a baby [a] nightmare.” Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images via Newspapers.com and Espacenet “If ‘Teddy Bear,’ why not ‘Billy Possum’?” That was the question posed by a …