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...about it ... To hear the Republicans' political orators constantly berating those of us who want to look the economic facts in the face as prophets of doom and gloom, you might think the welfare of the nation is for them merely a jolly game of blindman's buff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opposites in Illinois | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...little estate outside Paris, where he fishes in his private lake, and a specially built ($8,570), emerald-green Salmson coupe, which he likes to try out at 100 miles an hour. For the French it means that Sidney is American jazz in the flesh. Explained one French jazz buff: "A lot of jazz musicians are known to the French, but it's Sidney who's known to the average person. He plays jazz like a gypsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Along the Rue Bechet | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...Look. The customers who followed Ohrbach's uptown found a big change from the cluttered aisles and creaky flooring of the old store. The new Ohrbach's (actually the 47-year-old James McCreery department store, remodeled) sported carpets of grey and buff, walls of pastel pinks and blues, modern display cases, more try-on rooms. But nothing was changed in the business methods that have made Ohrbach's a phenomenon of U.S. merchandising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: High Fashion at Low Prices | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...Mike and Buff's Mailbag (Thurs. 3:45 p.m., CBS). Eloise McElhone on husbands and wives at parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Aug. 2, 1954 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...cover a hundred pages with . . . fascinating cadavers." Writes Hecht nostalgically of those days: "That was happiness." The weakness of Hecht's armor was that it left him in sketchy underwear whenever he took it off. Like many an other supposedly invulnerable fellow, he was exposed, when in the buff, as more of a maudlin breast-beater than a Front Page chesty. Swept up by the Chicago literary movement just before World War I, he tried to temper his fondness for cadavers with pious offerings at the shrine of The Little Review. In its inner circle a young man might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Rusty Armor | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

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