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Word: box (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank you for mentioning mink-trimmed golf tees. Here is a photograph to show you how a Mink Tee looks when ready for play. Our product is made of fine-quality mink, packed three shades to a box: autumn haze, cerulean and white jasmine mink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1958 | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...Venezuelans' triumph was a source of hope throughout the Americas' free countries, a warning jolt to Latin America's last few strongmen (see box). Argentina, struggling to clean up the mess left by Juan PerÓn, could face its first free post-PerÓn general elections this month without the nagging threat of interference from the ousted dictator operating in plush exile in Perez Jiménez' Caracas. Colombia, lately rid of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, could get on with its rebuilding, proud of having set a good example and with fresh assurance that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The Lesson | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Long before game's end, the specialists in the press box were wondering whether Robertson did not look better in his New York debut than such greats as La Salle's Tom Gola, De Paul's George Mikan or even Kansas' Wilt Chamberlain. Robertson's points lifted his game average to 32.1, second in the nation only to Chamberlain's 32.2, led Coach George Smith to muse: "You know, this is the first time we ever let this guy loose." On the loose again two nights later as his team smashed North Texas State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oscar on the Loose | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...papers agreed to run the form for ten days. In the first two days, a dozen entries arrived addressed to "Secret Witness, Post Office Box 654, Clarksburg," i.e., the police. Some of them listed "reasons" in such detail that they required an extra sheet of paper. Said Sergeant Walter L. Pike, in charge of the investigation: "We'll get around to every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Find the Killer | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Proving, as usual, that quality does not necessarily jingle cash registers, Motion Picture Herald posted the results of its poll of some 10,000 U.S. and Canadian theater owners. Their selection of the top ten box-office pullers featured male dreamboats of all ages, indicated that teen-agers are calling the moviegoing public's tune, with nary a cinemactress in the top ten for the first time since the Herald started its balloting 26 years ago. Scratched in the past year: Marilyn Monroe and Kim Novak. The new all-male marquee names hailed as dollar signs by exhibitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Best & Biggest | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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