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Office workers found the detonating wires still lying on the floor, along with several Blackjack chewing gum wrappers. It was deduced that the gum was used to tamp the explosive into holes drilled in the safe door. The police found finger prints all over the place, but no one was over apprehended for the robbery...

Author: By David G. Braaten, | Title: Author - Thief Lists $100,000 Harvard Haul | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...Leather sandals for children, with a ball of bubble gum fitted into the uppers, were offered for sale in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...lingered in Traveler Gerasimov's memory. "The naked woman's body, like a national trademark," wrote Gerasimov, "has become the symbol of American commerce. Naked, seminaked, undressing and dressing women fill not only the films but the pages of magazines advertising food, clothing, automobiles, hotels, refrigerators, chewing gum and everything which in the opinion of the businessman would represent the vital interests of the people. The indecency of American advertising is indescribable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Travel Broadens | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Harvard's eight pulled down the river in short bursts, testing a variety of cadences. In the bow of his launch, Tom Bolles chewed gum, bellowed instructions through a megaphone and watched every move of his long-legged crew. A big man himself, he has no time for little men: "Unless he's six-feet-four and his hands hang down around his knees, he can't be a good oarsman." At Cambridge Bridge, the coach went wild yelling at a flock of dinghies to clear the course. In a practice spin at 2,000 meters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unless He's Six-Feet-Four . . . | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Each day when school let out, the boys & girls would stop by his stand. Sometimes he gave them bananas and sometimes a nickel for bubble gum. Then he would ask them all about school and what they wanted to do when they grew up. Charley told his friends that he was going to leave a fortune to the kids. "They'll remember old Charley," he used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Don't Forget | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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