You owe the existence of the cuddly teddy bear to
the U.S. president The odore Roosevelt. Once when he was on a hunting
trip, the president who was also known as Teddy (short for Theodore)
Roosevelt refused to shoot a stray bear cub. This story was of course
well retold in the newspapers soon after. With cartoons of the event
making a splash everywhere, toy-makers began making soft and lovable
stuffed bears and dubbed them `teddy bears.’ Little would have
Roosevelt imagined when he did the good deed what a universally
and timelessly loved entity he was going to help create.
