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...Sale. In Hackensack, N.J., a salesgirl, subpoenaed for jury duty, replied politely: "In answer to your letter, I am not interested in your offer. I have a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...particular place, be it the unending bleakness of West Philadelphia, or the strident shrillness of a chromium-and-glass bar. His only mistake is unbelievably bad. In the otherwise excellent payroll robbery scene, the presence of palm trees in the background make the fact that it ostensibly occurs in Hackensack, N. J., a little tough to take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/7/1946 | See Source »

...that time, no one except "Mike Scat" could get the garbage-collecting contract. The law provides that a bidder for the contract must own a garbage dump; an incinerator would not do. Mike owns several dumps along New Jersey's Hackensack River, whence he sells his swill by the cubic yard to pig farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Yesterday's Garbage | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Backward, Turn Backward. In San Francisco, a pedestrian stopped by Police Inspector George Page explained why he was walking backward: "I like to read the expressions on the faces of the people who are following me." Subject for Study. In Hackensack, N.J., county jailers greeted Rose Mann, charged with assault & battery, studied her 360 pounds, studied their cell doors, arranged for her release without bail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 6, 1943 | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...ballet, Drums Sound in Hackensack, proved that Choreographer de Mille, like her movie-directing Uncle Cecil B., has a touch, and the touch made it seem that, among the New Amsterdam Dutch of 1650, there was no situation which would not be improved by a saucy twitch of the rump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On the Toes | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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