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...sentence for a parse job, 10? apiece for the provinces of Canada, 80? to tell who fought in the Hundred Years' War. Her earnings buy forbidden lingerie. "Some day I will be allowed to wear black lace underwear," Red Knees explains, "and when that day comes, buster, I mean to be ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peach-Fuzz Bluebeard | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Donna Reed Show (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.)* Cheops-faced Clown Buster Keaton makes one of his rare appearances outside old movies. He plays a Santa Claus who puts hospitalized children in stitches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...Real Phony. Breakfast at Tiffany's takes place, flashback-fashion, in 1943, and is full of stationary action: his room, her room, and a Lexington Avenue bar. His room contains Holly's Platonic friend, a fledgling writer whom she calls Buster. Holly's room contains unopened suitcases and unpacked crates frequently decorated with filled martini glasses, for in Holly's transient world, home is wherever one hangs one's hangover. Into Holly's rowdy parties troop the well-heeled and just plain heels. Among them: a rich, effeminate, gossip-column playboy; a roller-skating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bad Little Good Girl | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Basement Rise. Buster started his rise in the complaint department of May's Famous-Barr store in St. Louis during vacations from Dartmouth ('36), spent twp summers traveling through Russia, Manchuria and Japan as a photographic assistant to crack freelance photographer Julien Bryan. He worked his way through Famous-Barr's bargain basement, after a wartime stint as a Navy officer rose to vice president and manager of the company's two St. Louis stores before moving up to president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING & MARKETING: Happy Marriage | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...helmsman of the new chain, Buster May will need all his selling skill to outrace his rivals. He is confident that he will win, is going ahead with new May stores in San Diego, Denver and the San Fernando Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING & MARKETING: Happy Marriage | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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