STORE TO STORE.(Yottoy Productions sells toys door-to-door to businesses)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 10-MAR-03

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Kate Karcher Clark, president and founder of the seven-year-old Yottoy Productions, and Peter Doodeheefver, vice-president and creative director of same, set out one recent morning to sell their wares to toy stores, lugging a twenty-pound royal-blue canvas bag that was filled with their idiosyncratic stuffed toys. Clark is thirty-six; Doodeheefver is forty. She is five feet two, with the voice and manner of a child; he is a foot taller, and exceedingly calm and benevolent. She is married to a real-estate lawyer, lives on the Upper East Side, and has a four-month-old baby named Grace Olivia. He is a bachelor, lives on the Lower East Side, refuses to have a TV set, and, according to Clark, "reads all the time."One of their...

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