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...Durham, N.C., the Holloway Funeral Home announced last week that it will give trading stamps to customers who pay their bills in ten days. In Greensboro, N.C., the Hargett Funeral Home decided to give stamps to purchasers of caskets and cerements. "It seems like people just want something more for their money," said Assistant Manager Nathaniel Hargett Jr. "We figured that to get the trade we would go along with the trend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: Trend | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...Spencer Love '17, Greensboro, N.C., chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Burlington Industries, textile manufacturing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Senator Kennedy Nominated to Alumni Board of Overseers | 1/18/1957 | See Source »

...Call You. In Greensboro, N.C., Charles W. Craddock filed suit for $15,000 damages, claimed his dentist dropped a two-inch root-canal reamer down his throat, told him to "go home and forget about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...problem (not peculiar to North Carolina) has been the dearth of highly susceptible teen-agers at polio clinics or in doctors' private offices. Parents eagerly drag the moppets in by the hand, but ap parently leave teen-agers to fend for themselves. Greensboro's Dr. Samuel Ravenel, who sparked the state drive, tried to remedy this with a slogan: "Walk with Salk, so you can rock 'n' roll." Evi dently it took, because teen-agers made up about half the Guilford queues. In Gibsonville Mrs. Thomas Scoggins took in her five-month-old baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Walk with Salk | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

Know Thyself. In Greensboro, N.C., Herman Lamm, serving a 15-year prison term for robbing a bank, appealed to have his case reopened on grounds of insanity, announced that he had worn a work shirt with his employer's name and address on it during the holdup, claimed that "this is not compatible to the action of a sane person who is about to rob a bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 20, 1956 | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

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