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These provisions will have no real effect unless and until they are written into local contracts. But in the building trades even a start toward folding the feather-beds is revolutionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Folding the Featherbeds | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...hands and heads that stick through the quaint old collars and cuffs are stuffed with straw, there will be no complaints from the fans of fancy-dress fiction. Novelist Seton (Dragonwyck, Katherine) moves among the historic exhibits with the assurance of an attendant waving a feather duster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winthropologist | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...industry. Some 95 plastic or fiber-glass boats were on display, including the 41-ft Bounty II, biggest plastic boat, with a 55-ft. fiber-glass mast, the tallest yet made. Among the other newcomers in Plastic: the 26-ft. Luders-16, day sailer and racer; the 15-ft. Feather Craft runabout; and the 14-ft. Owens Speedship runabout. The new construction not only permitted builders to cut costs,*but also set them off on a color spree of red, yellow and blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Power Afloat | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...either a stroller's gait or a flat-out leap. Hoyle says the control lies in two simple nerve fibers that attach to the jumping muscles; one is for slow action, one for leaping. The tiny bundles of muscle fibers that are packed like the fibrils of a feather all along the thigh are never fully activated by impulses carried by the slow-action circuit, and so the grasshopper can walk where it pleases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Grasshopper's Hop | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...burst of klieg-lit euphoria, no less an authority than Producer and Play-tinker George Abbott once claimed that Author Shulman "seems distantly related to Dean Swift and Rabelais." This book proves that the feather merchant of U.S. humor is still keeping his distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Dec. 30, 1957 | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

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