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...Father Fabre, who unwittingly dignifies a liaison between one of his parishioners, Mrs. Mathers, and her non-Catholic paramour, Mr. Pint, by dining with them and Mr. Pint's daughter Velma. The high comic humors of the story and the evening revolve around an old-fashioned ice cream freezer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Devil Inside | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...thousands of dollars for his kit, including such luxury items as Abercrombie & Fitch Co.'s pure cashmere long underwear (price $99) and binoculars (at $230). Another will actually turn a profit on a hunting trip, spend less than $100 and come home with enough venison to stock his freezer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: BIG GAME in the US. | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...spring Harvester seemed on even solider footing, as it overhauled its refrigeration department, doubled the number of its regional sales offices and trumpeted that it was launching a multimillion-dollar sales program. Last week Harvester revealed that it had been treading on thin ice all along: it quit the freezer business. The company sold its 962,000-sq. ft. Evansville, Ind. refrigerator plant for $19 million to fast-growing Whirlpool-Seeger Corp. (which is backed by RCA and Sears, Roebuck), announced that henceforth it would stick to its $1 billion-a-year farm-equipment business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Harvester Cools Off | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...small monthly installments. The monthly payments, which they consider savings and investment as well as housing cost, can also take care of taxes and insurance. From a furniture store they can get a living-room set at $15 a month, and from the appliance man a freezer for $8.29 a month. If they want a power mower, some hardware dealers will sell them one for a few dollars each month in a budget charge account. The clothier, the fuel-oil dealer, even the man who sells storm windows, are only too happy to carry a new customer on time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Businessmen Are Keeping the Ledger | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...Frames & Freezers. Another scheme is the contest portrait. Any radio listener who identifies a "mystery tune" (usually something as well known as The Star-Spangled Banner) receives a coupon to buy "a $14 photograph" for $1. At the studio the prospect is pressured into buying a frame ($2.95 extra), tinting ($6 extra), and perhaps a whole set of pictures. In Chicago, bait advertisers plug a food-freezer plan. By buying in large quantities from a "co-op," the prospect supposedly saves enough to pay off the cost of a freezer. But, says Chicago's Better Business Bureau: "The savings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Sucker's Game | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

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