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...manufacturer to make the suit. Booth estimates that any retailer with a gross of $50,000 a year can profitably adopt PhotoMetric. The greatest savings will be in alteration costs, inventory, space, insurance, etc. In fact, Booth thinks that anyone can set up in business with a swatch of cloth and a camera, without knowing anything about tailoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invisible Tailor | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...streets of Frankfurt last week, black, red and gold tricolors whipped in the wind. They meant nothing to some people. "What a waste of cloth," said one old Hausfrau. "Think of the dresses all those flags could make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ghost Voice | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...diarrhea in San Antonio's untidy West Side Mexican slum district during the past month, shocking the city into a belated cleanup campaign. D. A. Richmond's coffin factory was working overtime filling orders for its smallest size: a two-foot pine box, covered with white lambskin cloth, that sells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hotels: Outbreaks in Texas | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Personal Traits. He is big (6 ft. 1 in., 200 Ibs.) and barrel-chested, black-browed and bespectacled, with thinning grey hair brushed carefully across a high-domed head. He dresses meticulously, wears custom-made blue or grey suits (his wife chooses the cloth), recently adopted a diplomat's Homburg. No backslapper, he is well-liked but something of a lone wolf in the Senate cloakrooms. In private he is amiable, with a quick, irreverent wit. When speaking he uses a sweeping sidearm gesture like a baseball pitcher's, rolls out his rounded, often eloquent periods in full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: VANDENBERG | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...cloth untrue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Master | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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