Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...route to the Pacific Coast by plane, the merchandising manager of Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn department store, read a 15-line item in the Business & Finance section of TIME'S February 14 issue (see cut) that made him itch to get to a telephone. The story was a brief account (sent in by a TIME correspondent) of the fact that a Birmingham, Ala. housewife had apparently invented a sewing machine needle that would unrip a seam in the same time that it took to sew it. If true, the Abraham & Straus-man said later, "this needle was what an eraser...
...Abraham & Straus put the ripper on the market in the metropolitan area and, at their invitation, Mrs. Lawrence came to New York City a few weeks ago to demonstrate her invention. She is an alert, attractive, grey-haired grandmother who shoots golf in the 80s and sings in her church choir. A native of Hartwell, Mo. she went to school and to business college in Fort Scott, Kans., attended a dressmaking school in Chicago, and was married in 1916. Her only child, a daughter, is married and has three children...
Nineteen years ago, in a thundering book called Universities: American, English, German, learned Abraham Flexner, then director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N J., roundly damned U.S. colleges. With all their "wretched claptrap" of vocationalism, he held, "they resemble the modern drugstore in which the pharmacy has been pushed in the corner by soda fountains." Last week, at 82, Educator Flexner announced a modified opinion: "There must have been changes in educational methods." His reason for thinking so: for two years he had quietly been taking courses in English literature and the fine arts at Columbia...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Abraham Lincoln currently command top market prices-$125 and up-for holograph letters by U.S. Presidents, the weekly Antiquarian Bookman announced. A Herbert Hoover draws about the same as a George Washington ($100 up). Calvin Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson rate around $35 each; Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt, $10. A genuine pre-1945 Harry Truman goes at around $50 the holograph, neck & neck with a genuine Warren G. Harding...
...more than an hour, Witkowski clung; to it, while people shouted, swirled and cussed around him. Some wanted to open the box right there: they suspected it had a secret inner panel. Finally Assistant Prosecutor Abraham Sepenuk showed up and agreed to impound it for grand-jury examination...