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Objection was once made to the high literary content of the questionees' responses. Insisted a superior: "That taxi driver you ran this morning looks straight out of Sing Sing and you have him talking like Nicholas Murray Butler. Just put the words down as they come out of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Accosting on the Street | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

"The Ox-Bow Incident" is no rippin', rarin', shootin', swearin' type of wooly Western bellowdrama, with horsemen riding hell bent for leather towards the Mexican border pursued by pop-gun posses. In Clark's book there is only one shooting and three hangings, all told, and even then the fellow...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 10/8/1940 | See Source »

No stranger to the hinterland is the name of Saks Fifth Avenue. It is the crown jewel of Macy's Herald Square competitor, Gimbel Bros., which last week opened its eighth U. S. shop. The place: Detrot. There for the event with a coterie of 25 top Saks officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Department Stores Chained | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

Mornings Witnesses spread themselves through the city according to prearranged plans. So efficiently did they space their posses that dazed Detroiters thought the city had been taken by storm. Witnesses wore sandwich signs, brandished placards, sowed handbills and pamphlets everywhere. Phonograph-toting canvassers claimed "hundreds of converts."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witnesses in Detroit | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

In Antlers, Okla., Aubrey Booker, 25, playful mountaineer, left the family shack to "have fun" with county law officers. He 1) stole a car, 2) abandoned it, 3) stole another, 4) picked up a 15-year-old village lass and kept her with him three days, 5) robbed a filling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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