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There was other good news. The elite of Kabuto Cho, Tokyo's Wall Street, met at the Tokyo stock exchange, wearing their best pin-striped trousers and their warmest smiles. There was some happy oratory. One speaker exclaimed: "The blossoms are opening;" the meeting's chairman called for a teuchi shiki (an old Japanese ceremony of congratulations). The assembled bankers and brokers solemnly rose and clapped their hands in unison, 13 times. Then they adjourned for a buffet lunch of roast beef, beer and strawberry shortcake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Blossoms Are Opening | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Although police have checked with occultists over the weekend, no definite lead has been brought to light on the marauder who escaped three resident students in a confused brawl. Investigation is still under way in an attempt to pin down the visitor through the coat ripped from his back in the struggle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glasses, Coat Aid Hunt for Prowler | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Hampshire farm, Charles Greeley Abbot has pooh-poohed the almanacs' weather forecasters. "We used to get a farmers' almanac," he says, "and it would say something like: 'About this time, look for a frost.' It didn't pin down the area, or the day, and people took it in three or four states. How in the world could it miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Every 6.6456 Days | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Captured Weapon. In Atlanta, attendants at Grady Memorial Hospital ministered to a woman whose husband had hit her with a rolling pin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...customers that receipts totaled only $4.98. Business has been picking up ever since. Tiffany's began unobtrusively to court foot-slogging shoppers as well as the carriage trade; this week its chaste ad in the New York Times offered gold brooches for $34 as well as a diamond pin at $6,650. In its store at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street are private buying rooms, where rich clients can inspect $200,000 necklaces at their leisure. But a housewife can walk in off the avenue and buy a $3 teaspoon or a 50? ashtray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Tiffany's Splits | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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