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...glad to see the paper back because a lot of Times readers will buy nothing else," James Finn, supervisor of the stand said yesterday. While he declined to release any circulation figures, Finn said the sale of the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal did not match the daily sale of Times before the strike, which began August...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: Newsstands Sell Times Rapidly As Readers Hail End of Strike | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

...almost a century ago, in Tom Sawyer Abroad, he described how his hero boarded a balloon in the Midwest and flew across the Atlantic with his loyal comrade, Huck Finn. Don't journalists read Mark Twain any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 18, 1978 | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...sight, that is. Bearded, sporting jeans and sneakers, with a bandanna tying back his shoulder-length red-brown hair and an earring dangling from his left ear, he comes on like some improbable blend of Celtic bard and Hell's Angel, with a smile straight out of Huckleberry Finn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Platinum Outlaw | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Last year 18.6 million tourists from abroad came to the land of Kojak and Huckleberry Finn, and the total is expected to top 20 million in 1978. Though waiters and cab drivers complain that they are not the world's best tippers, the foreign visitors will spend more than ever -nearly $9 billion, or $450 per person. Americans abroad still outspend them by almost $2 billion, but the gap is narrowing rapidly. Most important, foreign tourism is creating jobs in the service industries, which employ many blacks and Hispanic Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Here Come the Foreign Tourists | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

Harvard's best race came in the steeplechase competition. Reed Eichner, although he was new to the event, boasted the fastest time, and Peter Fitzsimmons and Brian Finn followed suit, sweeping the race right before Brown began to fight back and pick up most of its wins...

Author: By Ruth Kogan, | Title: Trackmen Fall By Two Points To Underrated Brown Squad | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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