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...Fum (at Mass Ave, and Mt. Auburn St.) is a very good second-hand store, and it has a lot of bargains on new clothes. The owner is friendly and helpful. You sort of have to take pot luck there, because it's impossible to tell just what will be in at any given time...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Cosmic Laughs in the Square | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...hilarious as a birdbrained, spaniel-eyed, llama-lipped pony player; and Walter Matthau has his moments as the big hairball who runs the syndicate-among them the deathless moment when, with a casual flick of his manicured fingers, he announces superbly: "Give dis genulman eighteen tousan' dolluhs fum petty cash." The whole cast obviously enjoyed making the picture, and most spectators will find that the pleasure is mutuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Yak Derby | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

Terrible-eyed, a father rose up from his coffin one night last week, rushed after his beautiful young daughter and with bloodthirsty screams attempted to sink his fangs into her throat. Poor stiff. Some other vampire, succubus, lamia, boggart, barghest, uturuncu or related fee-faw-fum had already drunk the poor girl dry. The U.S., as summer moviegoers may have observed, is crawling with the bloody things. The horror industry is in the hideous throes of what may be the biggest necromantic revival since Count Dracula was a nipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blood Pudding | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...afternoon of his birthday, Rodecker treated his wife to lunch at one of Manhattan's best restaurants, Le Pavilion (Saumon Fumé, $3; Germiny aux Paillettes, $3; Pigeonneau aux Olives. $6; coffee, 70?. Afterward, they strolled the few steps up 57th Street toward the corner of Park Avenue, underneath the windows of the Ritz Tower, where lives, among others,TV Star (What's My Line?) Arlene Francis* with her husband, Producer Martin Gabel, and her 13-year-old son. As the Rodeckers walked by, a maid in the Gabel's eighth-floor apartment began removing a screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Celebration | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

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Author: By Charles S. Maier and John B. Radner, S | Title: I Hear America Swinging | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

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