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...tightest-lipped of all. Last week L. & M. got a new president who seemed just the right man for the job. He is Benjamin F. Few, 56, who has been vice president in charge of L. & M.'s advertising since 1934 and has managed to keep clam quiet all the time. He intends to stay that way. Few replaces J. W. Andrews, who is stepping down at the retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: Man of Few Words | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...said Dr. Haas, 41, a veteran of 19 years with the Public Health Service, is a nationwide system of germ-warfare detection centers. They would operate in much the same way as a radar network for detecting the approach of aircraft. But instead of a sky-scanning "bedspring" or "clam shell," there would be, in each likely target area, a device to force large samples of air through filters on which disease-causing organisms would be trapped. Each day's catch could be analyzed to see whether any unusual microbes had appeared. So would samples of the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Poisoned Air | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Early Frost. But Birds Eye has plenty of competition. There are 1,050 smaller companies whose 500-odd products include frozen clam chowder, gefüllte fish, ready-to-bake biscuits, strawberry shortcake, Chinese egg rolls, cheese blintzes, chicken pie, bullhead fillets, partridge, Australian rabbit, buffalo meat and mallard duck. But the biggest sellers are still staples of the U.S. kitchen, vegetables, fruits and juices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Cold Proposition | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...Clam Flats Hula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...Hula-hula" is accompanied, up here on the clam flats, by a fetching contortion of undeveloped hips, with nary a skip missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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