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So too must many of the 42 other smaller regional breweries, whose overall market share has been shrinking. Those embattled companies might adopt as their anthem the jingle composed by Irish Novelist Brian O'Nolan in praise of Guinness stout, a brew so syrupy that a well-fed mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Beer: Big Battles Are Brewing | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Why did shoppers buy so much? Retailers have a simple explanation: rising personal incomes and a general feeling that their jobs are secure have put consumers in a happy mood. That impression conflicts with polls that show much doubt and worry about the state of business, but retailers have the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deck the Halls, Clear the Shelves | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

In the meantime, the cameras follow a French UFO expert--played by Francis Truffaut (who is actually a French UFO expert)--as he scrambles from one side of the globe to the other gathering evidence that has been left in the wake of the same aliens who caused the ruckus...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: A Close Encounter of an Overblown Kind | 1/6/1978 | See Source »

"Before the last number of Pickwick had appeared in its green paper covers, its plump and amiable little hero with his gaiters and benevolently glittering spectacles, together with Sam Weller and his other friends, had become more than national figures-they had become a mania. Nothing like it had ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spirit of Christmas Present | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

When the shopping trip is over, you may be convinced that "Jingle Bells" is a song about cash registers, and that green is a traditional Christmas color because people spend huge amounts of money for the holiday. Christmas shopping is here to stay, the department stores insist, and even good...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: Uncle Barney? Oh, Get Him Alumpa Coal | 12/9/1977 | See Source »

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