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...that she had lost $60,000 worth of jewels. "Don't worry, lady," an American Express escort reassured her, "You take the train and we'll find the jewels." The agent headed unerringly for the woman's hotel room, found the rings and bracelets under her pillow, set them by messenger to the ship. FITs for VIPs. The company's most pleasant labor is compiling FITs. i.e., "Foreign Independent Tours." For travelers who want to be free of details, supervision and money worries-which is FITs-the company handles an average of 1,100 trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: TRAVEL | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Actor Ewell is again a man whose wife (Sheree North) is out of town, but this time the old Tom does less prowling and more yowling. His wife has gone from family pillow to Air Force post in Hawaii, and that's a two-year trick that Tom refuses to take. Lieut. North, however, seems to enjoy her military duties quite as much as her wifely ones, and husband Ewell is hard pressed to put asunder what the Pentagon has joined together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...flower the pillow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rage of Paris | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Trottenberg said that the service, which supplies towels, sheets, and pillow cases, costs $25 a year, or one dollar less than Gordon Linen Service. He added that for an extra $5 the University also provides blankets for a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unused Linen Supply Unknown to Students | 11/17/1955 | See Source »

...feeding them by bottle until they were old enough to go on grass. Already, Joe's hearty appetite for cold cash was apparent: he even made a tidy profit out of his habit of sucking his thumb. For months, both his mother and grandmother put dimes under his pillow every time he went to sleep without his thumb in his mouth. Finally grandmother Carver said: "Joe, this has gone far enough. We'll just have to stop giving you money." Replied Joe: "If you do, I'll keep right on sucking my thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Closest Thing to the Lord | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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