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CREDIT CARDS are spreading to dime stores. S. S. Kresge Co., the third biggest chain (after Woolworth, W. T. Grant), will offer charge plates in 68 Michigan area stores. Woolworth is also testing charge plates; Grant has introduced them in all its stores...
Busy Line. In Indianapolis, charged with burglary when police caught him taking a phone apart with hammer, screw driver, mallet and can opener, James H. Coleman explained: "I was just trying to recover a dime I lost...
...being deterred by such formidable monthly fare, readers of Scientific American magazine dote on it, spend an average of four hours and twelve minutes reading each issue, and constantly demand more of the same. This month, without a bit of persuasion from the magazine-which has not invested a dime on circulation promotion this year-circulation climbed to a 114-year high of 250,000. Estimated 1959 gross-$5,000,000-represents a 50% increase over last year, a 4,243% improvement over...
...SQUARE, by Marguerite Duras (118 pp.; Grove; clothbound, $3.50; papperback, $1.45). A nursemaid meets a man in a village square; they talk, while the child plays, of how it is possible to go on living. The man travels about selling five-and-dime notions from a suitcase. He is able to live, he says, because he is without hope; his life will not change, and he does not mind. The girl, on the other hand, endures a dreary job because she lives in hope of finding a husband. Life is bleak for each of them; he lives from meal...
...federal revenooers about the $85,442 income tax they have asked for-a kingsize slice of the royalties York got from his movie biography, produced in 1941. "They claim I owe 'em so much," drawled the old soldier. "I say I don't owe 'em a dime...