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...male needs proof that women's hats are crazy-and that men get stuck for them-Benjamin Benedict Greenfield of Chicago is the man to see for evidence. At his Bes-Ben hat shop on Chicago's plush North Michigan Avenue, he has sold hats with everything on them from dish mops to jewels at a minimum price of $37.75, and an alltime high of $1,000 (complete with an emerald and ruby brooch). Last week, suave, dark-eyed Ben wowed the ladies again with a fashion show for Chicago's pet society charity, St. Luke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: A Hat Is a Hat Is a ... | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...Long and tough war Bes before us, a period trying and testing us; the peace will be shaped by the events the, war and by each one's sacrifices victory. Victory in itself will be a tremendous achievement; survival in freedom, unachievable without complete concentration of united nation on it, will be a cause for grateful rejoicing. But beyond that, victory will offer the opportunity for building an international under of law and peace...

Author: By Hans Kohn, | Title: Kohn Calls Law Only Alternative to Chaos | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

...school, finished his studies at night while clerking by day, had a wife, two children and debts totaling $500 when he passed his bar examinations. The debts were soon paid off, for as a lawyer he did well, especially with Negro cases. His dark clients called him "de bes' niggah lawyah dat atten's dese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1941 | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

Today tennis is still played for fun, but mostly by dubs, has-beens and never-will-bes. Many of those who play well enough to attract a crowd want to get paid for it. They sweat through amateur tournaments the year round to get their names in the papers, to enhance their box-office draw. The national championship, the goal of every U. S. amateur, is now also a convenient gateway to professionalism-the necessary first step to a barnstorming exhibition tour (for a guarantee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Volleys of 1941 | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

With such a bill-of-fare, Dodie Smith has had very little dinner to cook; it all comes, ready to serve, in cans. But she has laid the table beautifully, with the bes, china, the oldest silver and the thinnest glass. And though she goes in pretty heavily for thick white cream sauce, she has favored sauce piquante also, even uses a drop or two of tabasco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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