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...able, may well become an active candidate for the top job. Still another possibility, though he begins from a small base, is Iowa's enormously popular Governor Robert D. Ray, a tireless campaigner who often ends a day of politicking with a family snack at an ice-cream parlor. He will be only 49 when his fourth term-an Iowa record-ends in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: There's Life in the Old Party Yet | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

Last February, after several consumers had complained, the Massachusetts Attorney General's office took Bic's ice cream parlor to court, alleging that store employees were calling their ice cream "homemade" even though it was manufactured at Brigham's Arlington factory--and even though.Bic's pina colada ice cream was identical to Brigham's natural pineapple coconut...

Author: By Alix M. Freedman, | Title: Factory-Made 'Homemade' Ice Cream | 11/4/1976 | See Source »

Anyone who has ever crooned in a shower will get a tingle out of Amazing Grace-America in Song, a 90-minute special that many PBS stations will telecast on Wednesday night, Oct. 27. Mixing sea chanteys, Victorian parlor songs and cowboy laments, swinging from gospel to Cole Porter to Charles Ives to Billie Holiday, Producer-Director Allan Miller has created a musical mosaic that reflects the variety and vitality of American song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American Songbag | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Opposite O'Briens Funeral Parlor on Mass Ave. there's the Plough and Stars--rowdy, always crowded, but kind of a nice change from the collegiate atmosphere that pervades the Square. The Plough and the Oxford Ale House on Church St. both have live music on weekends, so while they aren't great for talking you can sometimes find room to dance...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: miscellany | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

...family experience. By the time a child has reached majority, he probably has been to a dozen funerals of older aunts, uncles and cousins. Obsequies provide a chance for catching up on the latest gossip or to do a little business. Southerners still pay condolence calls in the parlor, where they sit for hours with the bereaved, rarely mentioning the dead. At times, church services can be as flowery as a dime-store sympathy card-or as colorful as an Erskine Caldwell novel. Recently one backwoods Alabama dirt farmer was laid out in a dark suit, white shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: The Spirit of The South | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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