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...France or the futuristic-looking wood burners of Scandinavia have been the industry's pacesetters. Now the slumping dollar is driving up import prices, and people find that they can often get better value with a domestic product like the Vermont-made Downdrafter or the Connecticut-made All Nighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Glowing Future for Forest Power | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Being students at a liberal arts college, we know procrastination. "All nighters" are often necessary to get papers out. However, these rarely result in first-class work. Was it necessary for Congress to pull an all nighter to get national legislation out? No! We therefore humbly award Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1978 | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...York State Supreme Court on 137 counts of larceny and falsifying records. "I don't wear dark glasses when I went to be booked," she told TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin in her heavily accented English. "Everything will be done openly as 1 have led my life." With first-nighter enthusiasm, she gushed over the mug shots taken as she was booked, pronouncing them "the best. I have short hair now; I look better than ever." And what about the many charges against her? "I have every good intention," she said. "In all my life, no one ever lost money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Winging a Broadway Angel | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...male Jane Curtin, Emerson moves, under his clerical robes and Rasputin beard, with a pneumatic grace and, except for a deficient malevolent laugh, his voice is the silky articulator of a deft cartoon of nastiness. When, after Emerson and Levi's "Living in Sin" number Mr. First Nighter lets loose his battle cry ("Ex-cellent!), there is no dissent here or anywhere...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: A Canine in a Cummerbund | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Throwing a sweater, a toothbrush, a Nat Sci textbook and a pint of Jameson's Irish Whiskey into a duffel bag, I headed out the door under the cloud of that typical all-nighter feeling. It was not to be a typical day, though, as I relaized upon stepping out into the grey early morning...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Yale Game: Soc Sci 2 and Irish Whiskey | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

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