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...eatin's and good keepin's" is Grandma's recipe for health. At 10 o'clock Grandma is ready for bed: "The minute my head hits the pillow I'm dead to the world." She sleeps on an old feather tick under an electric blanket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Presents from Grandma | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...negotiations with all eight other newspaper unions. (The publishers estimated that an across-the-board increase would cost them $1,000,000 a year for every $1 in pay boosts.) "New York publishers have made their decision," commented the Louisville Courier-Journal. "They are refusing to tie themselves to blanket cost expansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Strike in New York (Contd.) | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Fashion Forecast. In London, Reader "J. B." wrote a letter to the Communist Daily Worker condemning workers for wearing trousers, "those symbols of the inequality of women," declared that under Communism, "not only evening dress but trousers too will disappear ... I am already designing a tasteful blanket suitable for both sexes. It [has] no shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 14, 1953 | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...snow storms, originating from the combining forces of a northeast storm from Florida and a severe cold front moving down from Canada, are expected to blanket most of New England and cities along the coast from Delaware to Block Island. The Weather Bureau also mentioned possibilities of heavy snow over a belt from Alleghany, Garrett, and Washington Counties of Maryland northwestward through Pennsylvania into southern New York state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Showers Shroud Cambridge As Snow Veils New England | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...meeting of the committee held last Tuesday, the HYRC representative asked the group to endorse Pusey's entire statement, including a section deploring the use of the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying. But because agreement could not be reached among the member groups of the committee, the blanket endorsement was not given...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: YRC Backs Pusey In His Answer to McCarthy Charge | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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