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...Angeles, Laundromat Proprietor Sui Ming Leung, 52, was fined $500 after he admitted trying to steal $1,500 worth of heirloom jewelry that a customer of his was washing in one of the machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 14, 1960 | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

...touch with the agency that had hired his friend, also sent letters to nine other agencies advertising in the Sunday Times. Benson's first overture produced the ghost test-taking assignment at Columbia's Teachers College. His letters produced a response from a midtown Manhattan agency-whose proprietor promptly made Benson an equal partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ghosts for Hire | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

...Imprisoned most of the leading Algiers plotters-including Count Alain de Sérigny, proprietor of Algeria's most influential daily, L'Echo d'Alger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Defeat for the Right | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...Northern executive suites, the directors of chain stores wrung their hands in anguish, decided to do nothing. (Negroes account for at least one-fourth of all business transacted in the 300 Southern branches of Woolworth's alone.) Local managers solved the problems in different ways: in Charlotte, the proprietor of the local McLellan Store unscrewed the seats from the lunch counter. Some Kress, Walgreen and Liggett stores roped off the seats so that everybody had to stand, or closed the lunch counters altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Complicated Hospitality | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

Four times a year, a milk farmer in Indiana, a granary proprietor in St. Louis, a cobbler in Portland, Maine, and 25,000 other subscribers wait with varying degrees of impatience for their copies of a slender little magazine called Auxilium Latinum. Then, with varying degrees of proficiency, they translate its contents. The latest issue has a profile on Fredulus Astaire, he lyrics of a song called Somnians Pulchra (Beautiful Dreamer), one column of jokes under the heading "Sub-rideamus!" (Let Us Smile!), and, as usual, a Crucigramma (crossword puzzle). Auxilium Latinum-which means Latin help-is a U.S. magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Semper Latina | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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