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...Club on six separate nights, made off with a total of $820. George H. Upton decided that his usual route to the club had become too risky, swam 400 ft. across the Deerfield River, clambered up a steep bank, found nothing else to steal in the clubhouse, spotted a dime that post officials had pasted on the wall "for the convenience of robbers." used it to call police, dejectedly swam back across the river, gave himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...Corps lieutenant; Hugh L., 20, a part-time college student; Nancy, 7. An affable, storytelling Irishman, Brennan has been called jaunty, dapper, lacking the austere aspect commonly associated with Justices. A much-sought after-dinner speaker, he also plays duffer golf (low 100s), likes to read American history, Plato, dime novels. Said his happy wife this week: "On Friday afternoon my husband called me from the office and said there was a telegram from the Attorney General. It said something about 'Come down and have breakfast with me and then we'll see the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE NINTH JUSTICE: A HAPPY IRISHMAN | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...taste for china figurines, once the playthings of Europe's princes, has largely descended to the level of the cheap knickknacks on a dime-store counter. Yet those minor masterpieces of the 18th century which survive today are attracting a growing band of devoted collectors willing to pay up to $15,000 apiece for their finds. One of the most successful, as the newly published catalogue of his Meissen china (Harvard University Press; $25) makes plain, is Manhattan's Irwin Untermyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MAKE BELIEVE FROM MEISSEN | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...right?' and Orv would say, 'Don't worry about a thing.'" Epping would then appear, cash the checks and take away some cash, leaving the rest in a brown envelope marked "Hodge." Ed Hintz, describing himself as "stupid but honest," said he never took a dime for his services, had gone along out of "friendship" and because he thought Hodge's dodge was "normal" among Illinois politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Hodge Dislodged | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

...invited to send your free-will gifts and offerings for the support of this worldwide faith ministry to . . ."). Others use the hard-sell technique ("Mail those contributions now, because we have to pay up our back bill to wonderful KGER. I wish more of you would pledge a dime a day so we won't have to talk money. Keep those tithes coming in"). Whatever the method, the collections are often sensationally profitable. One established evangelist averages $35,000 weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Religious Hucksters | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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