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...trying to bring integration to Albany, Ga., the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his Negro followers have had plenty of armchair support from Northern whites. Last week came more impressive backing-an act of belief. Asked by Dr. King to join in a prayer vigil in Albany, 75 Protestant, Jewish and Catholic laymen and clerics submitted to arrest and jail for praying on behalf of the cause of desegregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Act of Belief | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...leaps into the air. The night before he was to compete, Brumel sat in the Stem Hall lounge, feet propped up on an overturned wastebasket, watching Gunsmoke. Behind him. other Russians were learning the twist to a loud-blaring phonograph. Mildly annoyed, Brumel stood up, walked around his overstuffed armchair to the phonograph, and turned the volume down. Then he leaped clear over the chair, landed on his feet, and sank back with a satisfied smile. Commented one Russian: "Valery may not be the best athlete we have ever produced, but he is certainly the most flamboyant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Topping the Kangaroos | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...furniture maker whose no-nonsense designs bear little kinship to bentwood. Somewhat surprised by all the excitement over vintage Thonet today, the firm nonetheless still "makes available" a modern version of the classic rocker, continues to manufacture the Vienna Chair (the familiar restaurant "upright") as well as the bentwood armchair that brought fame to the Thonet name and once moved Architect Le Corbusier to observe: "We believe that this chair, whose millions of representatives are used on the Continent and the two Americas, possesses nobility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Durable Curlicue | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...very long ago, Sir James Frazer sat in his leather armchair, distilling an impressive compendia of primitive customs from the reports of adventurous travelers; at the same time his countrymen were rallying to the jingoist battle cries of Kipling. Nor was the primacy of white civilization absent from the American idiom: with the then recent defeat of the last of the Indians, the slogan "Better dead than Red" still meant something. Soon after the turn of the century, however, modern cultural anthropology was born, when Franz Boas left his study and took to the hills in search of the truth...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Lewis' Novel Begins Where Anthropology Leaves Off | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

...make things easier for male shoppers, some stores have set up Christmastime "For Men Only" departments that are staffed with knowledgeable (and pretty) salesgirls. There, the shopper can relax in an armchair, sip a free drink and make his selections from items that are displayed for him. Unless he has a specific gift in mind, a husband is apt to buy his wife a slinky black negligee, which she almost invariably exchanges for bath towels or sensible underwear. Says a Cleveland merchandise manager, "Practically all the lingerie this time of year is sold to men. It's the kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: But Once a Year | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

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