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...cynic himself. By romanticizing Broadway, he was thumbing his nose at the world of respectability that he mistrusted and despised Cold Blue Eyes. "When a prominent citizen gets jammed up with the rules," he once wrote, "there are always a lot of folks ready to turn on the brine for him. But when some bezark that no one ever heard of gets found out, they rush him off to the sneezer or jail, with never a sob gulped out in his behalf." Yet when two bezarks awaited execution in Massachusetts in 1927, Runyon turned in a story so unsentimental that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: The Sentimental Cynic | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...Karloff, in a minor role, eyes his former gloom-mates and a dose of poison with equal distaste. "When I was young," Karloff grumbles, "we knew how to live." They also knew how to die - back in the days when a tongue in the cheek was soon pickled in brine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Werewolves | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...pants catch your fancy in the spring. J. BRINE will serve you fine. Everything stretches: long pants, surfers, bermudas, jamaicas, and shorts (not to mention skirts and bathing suits.) J. Brine carries genuine Levi's (and we know they're genuine because of the authentic rectangular red Levilable on the left side of the right hand back pocket.) The "lean, hiphugging masculine fit" comes in blue ($4.75), white $(4.50) and stretch ($7.95). Less glamorous, but certainly adequate, are CORCORAN'S Wranglin' jeans ($3) in 10 oz. denim, sanforized for that "trim western...

Author: By Susan M. Rogers, | Title: Experts Say: "Plus la change; plus la meme chose" | 4/8/1964 | See Source »

...international law, Mexico could make a case against the U.S., charging stream pollution. As a temporary measure to dilute the brine, U.S. engineers pump fresh water into the Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: A Pinch of Salt | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

Another famous sporting goods center, in fact the oldest sports store in the country, is J. Brine's, 1360 Mass. Ave. Recommended by years of experience, they carry complete baseball, basketball and water equipment, and string their own tennis rackets in the store. Their general stock is the largest in the Square...

Author: By Susan M. Rogers, | Title: Square Stores Slash Swimsuits | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

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