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Last week Silver charged that at least 15 sellers of vacuum cleaners, food freezers, storm windows, "have gypped . . . our public out of millions." For example, the decoy couples called a station about a sewing machine advertised at $26.50. They were visited by a sharper who confided that the machine was not very good; its needle was apt to snap under heavy strain and could not be replaced. Then he offered a $50 discount on a $189.50 model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The TV Sharpers | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Dangerous Decoy. Near Utah's Bear River Wildlife Refuge, where the bleak shadows of the Wasatch Mountains stretch toward Great Salt Lake, hunters could hardly shoot fast enough. Fat from a summer in the grainfields of western Canada, great flights of geese and fresh-water ducks made tempting targets (see color pages following). Bright, bobbing decoys lured the flyers down toward danger; artificial calls quacked to them as they passed; shotguns (usually 12 gauge) blasted broad patterns of destruction across the shallow reaches of the river. The miracle was that so many birds survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A TIME FOR DUCKS | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...attack branding the United States as a war-monger, Andrei Vishinsky startled his United Nations audience last week by offering a new Soviet proposal for controling the atomic bomb. In light of Russia's unrelenting barrage of anti-American sentiment, the present plan is probably no more that a decoy to divert interest from President Eisenhower's suggestion of an atomic peace pool. Or it could be a last minute attempt to prevent the United States from winning full support for European defense unity. But because of the sudden reversal in the Soviet position, there must be a careful examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Atomic Agreement | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...granted. One interception resulted in a triple lateral: Al Pfeifer brought the shirtsleeved crowd to its feet with a wild, diving catch of a 31-yd. scoring pass. There was enough hocus-pocus in each backfield to catch U.S. camera crews continually off guard. Often they focused on a decoy runner as he bucked and twisted downfield. Final score: Argonauts 13, Rough Riders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Canadian Football | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...came to the U.S. in 1939, married New York-born Painter Sage, became an American citizen. Their solidly luxurious country house in Woodbury, Conn, is completely unlike the artistic "house"' of Breton's poem. There are a stone terrace built by Tanguy (a do-ityourself fan), a pond with decoy ducks, and a rowboat for "harvesting the bull-rushes." Artist Tanguy works in a made-over barn. As he describes it, he simply stands before his easel and begins to paint?without plan, without thought of what he is doing. Says he: "I am still the prisoner of my skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seance in Connecticut | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

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