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...brothers and sisters, his parents. and his invalid uncle. Then his grandmother arrived to stay with the family, so Tomas set out to find another quarter for her gift. But somehow, on that day, nobody seemed to need rubbish hauled or had errands to be run. Entering a neighborhood grocer's, he saw 25? on the counter. He looked about; the coast was clear. He took it and went home...
Nowhere was that truer than in the U.S. itself, where Americans, far from being frightened or cowed, were fighting mad, "When a rattlesnake is loose in the house." said the Dallas News, "you get down your gun and go after it." Said Robert J. Holton, 55, a Columbus, Ohio, grocer: "We should start testing some of our own bombs just as close as we can to Russia, and let them have some of that fallout." "Among the people I've talked to," said University of California Professor Harry B. Keller, "there's a hardening of attitudes. Now that...
Based on a novel (TIME, May 12, 1958) by Alberto Moravia, Two Women tells how a Roman grocer's widow (Loren), sick of the war and scared of the bombing, packs her bags and takes her teen-aged daughter (Eleonora Brown) back to the mountain hut where she was born. There they work the stony fields and chatter away the evenings with the peasant women...
...Shugrue ate 3,925 Dilly Beans last month. She didn't gain an ounce. (Is she tired of Dilly Beans!)" Radio listeners were subjected to a barrage of zany plugs interspersed with 20 seconds of weird "music to eat Dilly Beans by." One ad advised: "If your neighborhood grocer doesn't have a jar, knock something off the shelf on the way out." So many customers took it seriously that some grocers complained, and Dilly Bean changed its advice, now lightly urges frustrated customers: "Move to another neighborhood...
...landlord was restless about the rent; the grocer had already refused further credit; and for the Argentine couple, who had come with their young son to live in Paris, things were getting desperate. Then one day in 1958, while the parents were having one of their quarrels, the son tucked some gouaches he had been doing under his arm, slipped out to peddle them at the Left Bank cafés. The first painting he offered went for $1 - and that was the beginning of the astonishing rise of Aldo Franceschini...