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It is indeed a pathetic situation when a TV set's proximity to the dining area is the big selling point of a house; how the visiting Russian housing administrators must have laughed at the spectacle of American parents hurrying to satisfy the slightest whims of their "progressive children" [Oct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1955 | 12/19/2004 | See Source »

My great-grandfather Harry Frazee, who owned the Red Sox from 1916 to '23, did not sell Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees to finance a Broadway play, as the legendary Curse of the Bambino would have it. He kept his baseball, theatrical and real estate businesses entirely separate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

My great-grandfather Harry Frazee, who owned the Red Sox from 1916 to '23, did not sell Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees to finance a Broadway play, as the legendary Curse of the Bambino would have it. He kept his baseball, theatrical and real estate businesses entirely separate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 29, 2004 | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

How to Live to Be 100 "How To Live To Be 100" described the physical habits and attitudes of centenarians [Nov. 8]. Their skills for successful aging can be employed by everyone. Let's remind one another that humor, passion and the ability to view aging as a valuable source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/25/2004 | See Source »

Men, and women too, are on their ingratiating best behavior in the blossoming of an affair. This isn't all salesmanship, closing the deal; it's that lovers swell with the sweet anticipation that this time will be different - perfect. And they will be different. They are, for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whatever Happened to Movie Sex? | 11/24/2004 | See Source »

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