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...started out as a trickle from places like Agawam, Mass., Diamond Bar, Calif., and Yardley, Pa. In short order it became a flood from Medford Lakes, N.J., Irvington, N.Y., Arvada, Colo., and all across the nation. Pictures of rosy-cheeked little girls in lace dresses and little boys who looked as though they would much rather be fishing than squirming in a photographer's studio. It is as if hundreds of thousands of American parents all thought that the high point of 1981 would be the moment when they could say to their friends and neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: A Sears Catalogue of Kids | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

DIED. David Burpee, 87, horticulturist whose mail order seed business, W. Atlee Burpee Co., developed the first commercially available tomato, cantaloupe and cucumber hybrids and sold 1,400 varieties of plants; in Doylestown, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 7, 1980 | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...will need three things to make it: a strong technique, a good agent, and a thick skin. By the time graduation rolls around, the oncenaive wunderkinder have developed the latter. At its center, Fame is really a monument to modern-day egoism. What has the Me Generation wrought at PA? A bunch of conceited, albeit talented, immortality-seekers who think of nothing but themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bursting in Air | 7/4/1980 | See Source »

John R. Clark Shamokin, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 30, 1980 | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...case, the FBI bugged Marcello's offices and set up a dummy insurance company in Bev erly Hills, Calif. Called Fidelity Financial Consul tants, the "firm" was run by Joseph Hauser, a convicted insurance swindler who was cooperating with the FBI in hopes of gaining early pa role. Hauser was introduced to Marcello by a Washington lobbyist named I. Irving Davidson; the Mafia don allegedly agreed to try to bribe Louisiana officials to obtain insurance contracts for Fidelity and then split the commissions with Hauser and Davidson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Again the Sting off the Scam | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

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