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No breaks, no how, no way. His father worked in a bank and got caught stealing pens. Research reveals that Rodney Dangerfield is the sap in his own family tree. The line has never been broken. Elevator operators eye him and always say the same thing: "Basement?" On a night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rodney Running Scared | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

Polemics did not ruffle Snow. Tall, portly and bald, he remained a genial, accessible figure in London's streets and clubs. He lived quietly with Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson, whom he married in 1950, and openly relished the honors that rained down on him. He was made a life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man of Two Cultures | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

Tyntareva and her customers were part of the Soviet Union's thriving underground economy. This involves more than just the familiar black marketeers, dealing in Levi's and ballpoint pens, icons and caviar, who greet Western visitors around the main tourist hotels. It is, in fact, a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Living Conveniently on the Left | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

More than 200 patients a day silently wander the halls, beneath a sign that reads REMEMBER, CONVERSATIONS AMONG PATIENTS ABOUT YOUR DELIRIUMS ARE FORBIDDEN. In one room 15 elderly women are putting together white ballpoint pens and costume jewelry; such work is regarded as therapy, but the pens and decorative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Children of Pavlov | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

Building a better mousetrap was too prosaic for Boston-born Veterinarian Henry Foster. Instead, he built a better mouse-millions of them. Thirty years ago, Foster, whose degree came from a nonaccredited school in Massachusetts, paid $1,300 for some traps and pens from an abandoned Maryland rat farm, shipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mighty Mice | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

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