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...between flare-ups, the committeemen listened to lectures on education, agriculture, highway safety, taxes, fishing and the ladies' handbag industry. At last they faced the most explosive subject of all: civil rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Cantilevered Roof | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

Both sides picketed, sloganeered, glowered. Then a woman shook her leaflets, shrilled with nice irrelevance at a veteran: "I'm for Wallace." He rumbled back: "I'm an American." She conked him with her handbag; a policeman, moving beefily forward, got it in the face on the rebound. The randan was on: for the next half hour the Roxy's sidewalk was busier than Union Square on an old-time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Randan at the Roxy | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...much good these helpful hints accomplished was demonstrated one day last week when Russian soldiers seized a middle-aged woman at 9 a.m., at one of Vienna's busiest intersections. She struggled desperately as she was pulled into the Russian jeep. To establish her identity, she tossed her handbag to a bewildered Austrian policeman. The Russians patiently stopped their jeep, and took the handbag from the policeman. Then they drove off with the woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Candy from Strangers | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...piece wardrobe, an electric refrigerator, a pantryful of canned goods, a set of fine china and another of flat silverware, a coffee brewer, a carpet, a vacuum cleaner, an electric washing machine, a ten-piece mahogany bedroom set, a gas stove, an electric stove, a fitted calf handbag, an automatic ironer, four end tables, a kolinsky scarf, a pressure cooker, six pieces of leather luggage, a year's supply of bed linen, an electric mixer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mrs. Parrett's Day | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...Harriet Hawk of Tulsa won the Sooner State Business and Professional Women's Club purse-cramming championship by pulling 218 separate articles out of her handbag. Her prize: a flashlight to facilitate future purse-mining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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