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...strides purposely to his dresser, opens the bottom drawer and carefully extracts his one clean white butten-down oxford shirt. From the mass of wrinkled spotted clothes hanging in massive disarray in the closet, he picks a hanger on which is draped the prized gray flannel. Pawing through a heap of jumbled dusty left shoes, he picks out a pair of glistening cordovans. Finally, on his hands and knees, he crawls under the bed and disentangles a red and gray striped rep from around the bedstead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clothed Nonchalantly For Most Of Week, Student Becomes Fastidious On Weekend | 11/13/1953 | See Source »

Nine of London's top-drawer underwriting houses guaranteed to buy any unsold stock, but they hope the public will buy it all. They feel that the more widely the ownership is held, the less likely that Britain's Socialists will try to nationalize the industry again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock: Capitalism in Britain | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Along with star-grabbing, ABC is also fielding such top-drawer dramatic programs as Cavalcade of America (in its new television dress), The Kraft Theater, The U.S. Steel Hour (The Theatre Guild of the Air, converted to TV from NBC radio). And all this, boasts Kintner, is just the beginning. Other ABC plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rich Third | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

Philco Radio Playhouse (Wed. 9 p.m., ABC). Joseph Cotten and Margaret Phillips in The Dusty Drawer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...revealed to the Communists. But with the President making the defense announcements, in a coherent whole rather than contradictory piecemeal, there would be little chance of the Communists profiting. There is much latitude before the government would pass from the necessary open appraisal of our defense situation to top-drawer and justifiably secret information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The People and the A-Bomb | 10/16/1953 | See Source »

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