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Without Tips. Even the surviving stores could not, with rare exceptions, stay in business without "extras"-greeting cards, fountain pens, records, etc. J. R. ("Jack") Cominsky, publisher of the Saturday Review, suggested to booksellers that they add travel bureaus, ticket bureaus and Western Union branches to stay afloat; he did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Supermarket for Books | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

Jimmy Carmichael started out in politics. He got his LL.B. from Georgia's Emory University ('33), he became a small-town (Marietta, Ga.) lawyer and went to the state legislature. After the war he ran for governor against Herman E. Talmadge, and was beaten under the state'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: The Capsule Pencil | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

Since World War II, Sweden has been plagued with high prices, inflation and a shortage of top-quality consumer goods. To put its economy to rights, the Swedish Ministry of Trade last week prescribed strong medicine: pour in cheap foreign goods to bring prices down. To attract imports from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Cure for Inflation | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

When it comes to picking up-and dropping-a fast buck, few can match Chicago's Ralph E. Stolkin, 36. By using the mails and punchboards to peddle such merchandise as ballpoint pens, coonskin caps and cheap radios, Stolkin ran a $15,000 loan into a $3,400,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Stolkin Rides Again | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Ten eager hands thrust fountain pens toward the big, swarthy man at the head of the velvet-covered table. Grinning, he dug into a pocket for his own pen, then scribbled his initials on the sheet of paper before him. Suddenly it was over and the room exploded into mad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: O Free and Glorious . . . | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

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