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...confusing enough, a hotel guest, while able to drink at any time because he is legally "at home," cannot offer a friend a drink when the local pub is closed. Nor can a grocer sell a housewife liquor, though he is allowed to "deliver"-if only to a waiting pram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Time, Gentlemen ... | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

From the smart sidewalks of Belgrave Square to the teeming front stoops of South London's slums, an English baby is known by the carriage he keeps. Massive, super-sprung, often a flashy lilac in color, for the Mayfair nanny and the working-class "mum" alike, the Big Pram has become in postwar Britain a symbol of status akin to the automobile in U.S. oneupmanship. But at least one winter baby in England next year is due for a hand-me-down. As Buckingham Palace prepared for the first child to be born to a reigning British monarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pink or Blue? | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Laugh Line (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). This audience-participation panel show may be only a baby pram of a program, but when the stars are Mike Nichols and Elaine May, the vehicle is of small importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Born. To Jerry Lee Lewis, 23, rock-'n'-oll singer whose tour of Great Britain TIME, June 9) was cut short by public outrage ("Go home, baby snatcher! Go wheel your wife in a pram!"), and Myra .ewis, 14, his cousin and third wife: a ion, their first child; in Ferriday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 9, 1959 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

When Mrs. Pusey moved to Cambridge, she gave up her vacations at the "clear, cold, and beautiful" lake near the Woodward home in Iowa, and now spends summers with her family in Mt. Desert, Maine, enjoying mountain climbing and sailing with friends. An eight foot pram, built in the basement of 17 Quincy Street, and a battered kayak which was given to Nathan, Jr., are the only family-owned boats...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: The President's Lady | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

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