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Seated behind his 8-ft. desk, Stanley Russell Schrotel looks like a corporation executive and talks like a university professor. But Stan Schrotel (rhymes with motel) is, in fact, a cop, a man who makes his living as Cincinnati's chief of police. And at a time when the rising wave of crime has become a major national problem, Police Chief Schrotel, 47, has earned the reputation of being just about the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ohio: Top Cop | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

...motor up to the state university to bag a scholarship from the friendly old white-haired English professor. On the way back it rains, and, perhaps a bit too cautiously heedful of the fact that the car has bald tires, they take lodging (separate rooms, of course) at a motel. But love blooms through the plasterboard, and some lowlife spreads the news. Scandal breaks loose. Elvis sings several mournful ballads. It all turns out well. At fadeout, Elvis gets all three girls and the scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Memphis Meadowlark | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...Gulfport, Miss. motel last week cruised a Pontiac station wagon. There the owner unloaded a wondrous array of equipment: an indoor barbecue set and an outdoor barbecue set, a box of charcoal and a box of pots and pans, cocktail glasses, an ice chest, a bottle of gin, a bottle of bourbon, a bottle of blended whisky, two deck chairs, four books about the stock market, a rack of record albums, a set of golf clubs, crab nets, a Coleman lamp for flounder fishing, a football, two tennis rackets, playing cards, a hi-fi set, beach sandals, a straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louisiana: A Matter of Morale | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...Where?" flips bosomy Joyce Taylor (Atlantis, The Lost Continent), jeans tight about her hips, man's shirt open to the navel. "To the nearest motel?" But Joyce is more than a kidder; she packs a mean pistol, which she has used to hold up a gas station and steal a car. At the village drugstore, Dave separates her from her banana split, shoves her and two sinister cronies into a squad car and heads toward headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Disaster on a Low Budget | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...swing to the suburbs that drove Hudson's to Northland and Eastland has prompted the company to plan two twelve-story office buildings, a luxury motel and a vast apartment community on the land it owns adjacent to Northland. Still another Hudson's shopping center-Westland-is in the works, and there are signs that under its young, new boss, Hudson's may move even farther afield. Fortnight ago, J. L. Jr. announced plans to open a budget store outside Pontiac, 30 miles from Detroit. If the customers come, Hudson stores may ultimately spring up all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: No Embarrassed Customers | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

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