Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trade Tool. In Memphis, Emett J. Ragland defended himself in court by exhibiting his diploma from Lumpkins Barber College, was nevertheless fined $50 for carrying a razor...
...small, shy James Madison Jr. rode from Virginia to Philadelphia in a two-wheeled chaise to take his seat in the Continental Congress. In the next six months he ran up a boardinghouse bill of $21,373.66, spent $2,459 for liquor, sugar, and fruit and gave his barber $1,020. Madison was neither rich nor extravagant. Like others of his poor but patriotic colleagues, he hardly knew where his next bale of inflationary paper money was coming from. In terms of hard coin, figures Biographer Irving Brant, Madison was living at the modest rate...
...solarium. Children can do most of their growing up on the 17th floor: romp in a nursery, play games in a playground, train in a gymnasium, or go to classes in a schoolroom. On the seventh floor, parents can shop, eat at the restaurant or drugstore, visit the barber or clinic. "Relieved of the two great burdens of heavy housework and the care of children," Le Corbusier explains, "the family will live a happy existence. There will be no quarrels between neighbors and no divorces in my house...
Olympic Games. Reporting from St. Moritz: CBS's Red Barber and NBC's Henry Cassidy (beginning...
...Greece, nothing happened last week so important to the country's future as what went on in the minds of men in Moscow, Belgrade and Washington (see INTERNATIONAL). There was war in Greece; but at the suddenly historic town of Konitsa the fighting had subsided. TIME Correspondent Mary Barber pushed into the town, sent her cable in short "takes...