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...cutouts cost Cub $500 apiece but have reduced shoplifting in the store 30% in the past six weeks. "We don't have to feed them, pay them, give them vacation or worker's comp," says assistant manager L.J. Stevens. "We just clean them off once a week with a dustcloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five-Fingered Discount | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...rest of that cast couldn't find the proscenium arch with both hands. Incidentally, about that hanky -you know, the star himself bought that hanky for 79? at Lamston 's just before opening when it turned out the prop man used the real thing as a dustcloth. Now back to the action onstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Time to Reflect on Blah-Blah-Blah | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...Will you trust my judgment, Mr. Fortas?", asked the salesman at Welch's Hardware Store in Westport, Conn. Dubiously, the Chief Justice-designate of the U.S. fingered the new, chemically treated dustcloth, examining it carefully by sight and feel. Finally, aware perhaps that this was a matter beyond his competence, he concurred with the clerk's opinion. Tramping around the narrow streets of Westport, accompanied by TIME Washington Bureau Chief John Steele, Fortas was enjoying the scruffy anonymity of any other summer refugee from the city. In baggy grey pants, a flame-red cardigan sweater, scuffed brown shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THINKING ABOUT OCTOBER | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...Never had such an understanding boss," said the chauffeur as he nicked a dustcloth over the Rolls-Royce convertible. And small wonder, for the "boss" is Andrei Porumbeanu, 38, a chauffeur himself until he got a divorce and shifted into high life by marrying Runaway Heiress Gamble Benedict, 22, whose grandmother tried to detour the romance. But now Granny is dead, the happy couple snugly ensconced in a 26-room villa in Erlenbach, Switzerland, where Gambi's inheritance makes life tolerable and the photographers drop by once in a while to snap them with their two handsome sons. Gheorghe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 12, 1963 | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

Whether in Dallas or Cleveland or Albuquerque or Spokane, energetic housewives are making the bowling alley their new all-purpose home-away-from-home. They have dropped dustcloth and vacuum and hauled the children off to the new alleys, where fulltime nurses stand ready to baby-sit in the fully equipped nurseries. The modern bowling establishment attends to all needs. In the alley dining room, the mothers have a little "coffee-and" to warm them up while they exchange the day's gossip. Then out to the floor, where 24, 48 or 60 shiny, electronically controlled alleys are laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Alley Cats | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

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