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Word: customers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief objection of the women customers is the industry's topsy-turvy custom of offering June's clothes in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: What Women Want | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

Here and there, however, signs cropped up last week that the customer criticisms were having some effect. Three top bathing-suit makers-Cole of California, Jantzen, Rose Marie Reid-reported that some New York stores had agreed to carry a complete line of swim suits to Aug. I instead of closing out after July 4. On the Fourth, Bergdorf defied usual custom, boldly featured several window displays of bathing suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: What Women Want | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...toughest tearaways in The Smoke, the Sabini gang at last gave way to the Black Brothers, who in turn were muscled out by Jack Spot. Born of Polish-Jewish parents in a Whitechapel tenement in 1912, Jack Spot (né Comer) was a shrewd operator with a taste for custom-made silk shirts, big black cigars and 40-guinea suits. It took a fat wad of track-protection money to buy these luxuries for Jack, but to help him collect it he had the assistance of an artful knife-wielder named Billy Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Gunfire in The Smoke | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

Ignore all this. While a certain formality in dress and behavior is to be preferred, even in the summer time, the true Harvard man will admit to no barriers of custom or geography. Although he does not like to see his University mistaken for a country club, he too enjoys his modest amusements. All that you need for acceptance into his community is an inquiring mind intelligently applied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'To Thine Own Self Be True' | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...countries exhibiting at Venice's Biennale, the U.S.alone gets by without government sponsorship. By custom, American museums have done the selecting, and private benefactors the financing of the U.S. entries. This year Chicago Financier and Art Patron Arnold Maremont picked up the check, and Katharine Kuh picked out the pictures. Her theme: "American Artists Paint the City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: NEW WORLDS OF THE NEW WORLD | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

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