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...striped denim uniform of a subway trainman appeared in the Mayor's office of the City of New York early last Tuesday morning, before the regular business hours. Theodore Loos, president of the Motorman's Benevolent Association, announced that the men on the IND were going to stage a wildcat strike at 5 a.m. the next morning...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Amateur Hour | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

...wore black denim trousers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: The Wild Ones | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...force from two officers to eight after warnings that motorcycle hoodlums sometimes dog the A.M.A. riders, sometimes get violent. (Ten years ago they almost wrecked nearby Hollister, Calif, during a three-day beer and battle orgy.) One day last week, as predicted, almost a thousand of the black-denim trouser set trailed 3,000 A.M.A. riders into Angels Camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: The Wild Ones | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...poems, however, at least have an appealing delicacy and simplicity. John S. Coolidge's Mare Imbrium, despite its inclusion in the anti-dull Audience, is dull. At the bottom of the heap, however, is Richard Eberhart's rather heavily-scented war-drama "I see a man in blue denim walking walking Through the halls of conscientious objection...." Here, at least, Audience seems not to be holding true to its announced intention...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Audience | 5/28/1957 | See Source »

Road Show. In Miami, when cops questioned Willie Cooper after they found him wearing four shirts, four pairs of pants, a sweater, two denim jackets, an overcoat, gloves and three hats jammed on top of each other, he offered a ready explanation: "I travel quite a bit and don't like suitcases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 7, 1957 | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

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