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...owner of Krackerjacks Inc. appeared in court yesterday on charges of selling second-hand clothing without a license. Donald "Jack" Levy, owner and manager of the Cambridge mod fashions store, won a postponement of the case until next Thursday...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Krackerjacks Faces Court Action, Lacks License to Sell Old Clothes | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

...land of the mod and the miniskirt is also the home of the mini-growth economy. Last summer, faced with mounting international debts, a critical gap between rising imports and diminishing exports, and growing skepticism about the value of the pound sterling, Britain's Labor government put the nation on a deflationary diet. Wages, profits and dividends were frozen; taxes were pegged high to dampen spending, and even a slight rise in unemployment was tolerated by a Labor Party that had always stood for full employment. Saddled with such restraints, Britons quickly became uncommonly economy-conscious. And they listened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: More Freeze & Squeeze | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

There isn't much of her to look at (31-22-32 and 90 Ibs.). Even so, it seemed as if every mod in Manhattan had turned up at Fashion Photographer Bert Stern's studio to see Lesley Hornby, 17, the cockney wraith more accurately known as Twiggy. Stern threw a welcoming blast for Twiggy when she arrived in the U.S. with plans to expand her minifashion career by peddling some $1,000,000 worth of her clothes in department stores across the nation and picking up an occasional $120 per hour as a model. At a loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 31, 1967 | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

BLOWUP. Actor David Hemmings comes into sharp focus as a pop photog who happens to take a picture of a murder (committed by Vanessa Redgrave) that he blows up, and which in turn blows up his whole mod scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Mar. 17, 1967 | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

...Mod Goddess. All that's exciting in the new cast of cinema characters is prepotently present in Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave. They look, to begin with, like no other actresses currently facing clapper cues?and certainly not like each other. Both are tall, but Vanessa is the taller by a smidgen; at 5 ft. 10½ in., she is the skyscrapingest screen queen in filmsville. (Garbo, though her pressagent insisted that she was only 5 ft. 7, wore flat heels in Grand Hotel but still swayed high above John Barrymore, whose pressagent insisted that he stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Birds of a Father | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

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