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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paying the price, and will until 1999, but perhaps some day someone now following the jagged trail that brought me before the court will get a break-instead of broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...condition for getting a title fight with Virgil Akins. Leonard, together with Jordan's manager. Don Nesseth, pretended to agree. After the fight Leonard ignored Blinky Palermo's attempts to collect a share of the money. Soon he got a summons to Miami. He flew down, was brought into the presence of Frankie Carbo at a waterfront motel. Carbo "advised" he comply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mr. Carbo & His Pals | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...their people have been enlisted as part-time hunters: when Francis C. Brown, president of New Jersey's Schering Corp., was in Port-au-Prince for the recent opening of the Haiti Psychiatric Institute, he heard of a red nut used by voodoo practitioners to calm disturbed patients, brought back samples that are now under laboratory test. Schering chemists are also analyzing a concoction which an African vendor labeled Mafuta Bhubesi-lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Herb Hunters | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Work on Tish 'ah Be'ab. Abe brought his own kosher food to school every day and ate it in the student lounge, where he also said his midday prayers in a corner, surrounded by chattering fellow students. Hospital duty during the 24-hour fast without food and water at Tish 'ah Be'ab (commemorating the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D.) Dr. Twerski describes as "murder,'' and the last six years have left him hollow-eyed and slightly sallow. But he is eagerly looking forward to the next stage: a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rabbi in White | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...rise of supermarkets, which now sell 68% of all U.S. groceries, has brought some potent new weapons to an old competitive war: the fight between the national name brands (sold under a corporate trademark) and the private labels (groceries processed for individual stores or chains). In the past three years, the private labels have increased their share of the market for many items-instant coffee from 12% to 31%, frozen vegetables from 38% to 53%, margarine from 58% to 71%, etc. Even such an advocate of national brands as the National Tea Co. (1958 sales: $794 million) is reluctantly turning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Grocer's Profits v. New Consumer Foods | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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