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Darling Janizary. He also has virtually every nickel he has ever earned. He was once seen handing a few coins to his first wife and counting them first. Some time ago, when Manhattan's Hotel Plaza sent him 1½ English muffins for breakfast, he called the head of room service and the manager and even threatened to call Owner Conrad Hilton, claiming that the menu said "muffins" and a measly 1½ did not live up to the plural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Old Cary Grant Fine | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...happen? . . . Irving, so why doesn't someone pick up this shirt? It looks like a schmuttie [rag]. And Irving, take more of this colored costume jewelry out of the drawers and put it on the cases. In two weeks it's not worth a nickel. So why don't you have it all out now? You don't want we should get stuck with it, do you. Irving?" Initial Offer. In his private life as in his business, Ferkauf operates with uncluttered simplicity and directness. He proposed to his wife, blonde Estelle Silverstein Ferkauf, on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Everybody Loves a Bargain | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...news conference, Democrat Symington indicated he had far bigger game in sight. He said he might quiz Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary George Humphrey about limited-risk contracts that the Truman Administration signed, just four days before it went out of office, with Hanna Nickel Smelting Co. Humphrey headed the nickel company's parent firm, M.A. Hanna Co., before he joined the Government, and he retained his Hanna stock while Treasury Secretary. All of these facts had been disclosed long ago, but Symington said he wanted to know if Humphrey's companies made unjustified profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Stockpile Spat | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

Long ago, the Israeli government had decided that to bury Eichmann's remains would mean desecrating Israeli soil. So, in a nickel container, Eichmann's ashes were taken 18 miles out to sea aboard an Israeli patrol boat and, as the sun rose over the mist-hung Mediterranean, scattered to the winds and water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: No Time to Waste | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...cried a young fellow. "I came down here from Penn State on $40. I got a nickel in my pocket, and I'm having a ball!" He chugalugged his beer and roared: "When in doubt, drink and shout!" That night, in a motel room. 24 boys and girls twisted to the music of a four-piece combo, adroitly avoiding two double beds, a table, a sink, a stove and a refrigerator. Cried a University of Miami coed: "Daytona Beach is the best place in the whole world!" That was precisely the reaction that Daytona Beach had hoped-and spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: On the Beach | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

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