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...Hard Sell. In Waco, Texas, less than two weeks after the Clifton-Simpson, Inc. furniture store advertised a "Sink or Sell'' sale, a two-inch downpour caved in the roof, did some $50,000 damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...green humps of Bald Eagle Ridge. Skies turned to unspectacular grey, and as the President dressed in gold-tasseled cap and gown walked out onto the campus of Pennsylvania State University to receive an honorary doctorate of laws and address a second graduating class, it was raining-not a downpour, but a thick, unspectacular drizzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Time for New Franklins | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

Along the South China coast last week, the rainy season was in full downpour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Across the Sham Chun | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...winds of time winnow away. But by the same token, the living can see more of today's art, good and bad. than future historians ever will. Last week the work of close to a thousand postwar artists was on view in New York City alone. The spring downpour of big survey exhibitions offered a new and broad perspective of contemporary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Postwar Decade | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Black-Eyed Susan (by A. B. Shiffrin) showed what can be achieved, with a little real effort, in the way of topnotch vulgarity. All about a young wife's seduction of a neurologist, it pawed and lipsmacked its way through a torrential downpour of double-entendres. The tone, here and there, was no worse than sniggering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Nights Before Christmas | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

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