The Sunday Read: 'The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune'
The Daily5 Apr 2020

The Sunday Read: 'The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune'

On this week’s “Sunday Read,” the magazine writer Jack Hitt introduces his story of how one 1960s bondage-film actress waged legal combat with a toy company for ownership over her husband’s mail-order aquatic-pet empire. The story is as crazy as it sounds.

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