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...would leave Viet Nam in the immediate future. For weeks truckloads of French soldiers bound for troubled North Africa have rumbled towards the waterfront, their full-throated soldiers' songs ringing out under the arched tamarind trees like a recessional. "There is no singing now," said the French proprietor of a local bar when they had passed. "Only the voices of the ghosts of our old comrades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Exodus | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...nickels will be pumped into pinball machines tomorrow as a result of a crackdown on Sunday playing by a policeman new to the Dunster Street area, Henry Bauman, the proprietor of Elsie's, revealed last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sunday Pinball Ban Hits Mike's, Elsie's | 2/4/1956 | See Source »

...Cahaly's Spa, sales were normal immediately after the magazine's arrival. A sign, posted this morning, sits on the news stand directing all prospective Playboy purchasers to the counter. The proprietor said that he realized that "the boys buy it just for fun . . . but I sell them behind the counter so that there won't be a lot of mobbing around the new stand. They'd rather look at it than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Late 'Playboy' Arrives on Square To Squelch Rumors of Censorship | 1/11/1956 | See Source »

...that the day of judgment is not far off. Repairmen have been alerted and are expected to appear on the scene tomorrow to disenchant the "S". If the weather or the magic spell is too potent, the sign may remain in its unholy predicament, and, as the station's proprietor observed, "The (S) hell Oil people will be mighty mad." The proprietor stoutly denied that customers had perpetrated the outrage in protest against high gas prices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What in Shell Happened? | 1/10/1956 | See Source »

Local florists gave varied comments on the issue. The proprietor of the Brattle Square Florist Shop said that there was no shortage, pointing to the piles of Christmas greens around his shop. Others said that though now they had fairly large stocks there would be a definite shortage in the next few days. They also admitted that the prices would rise significantly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Early Frost Helps Holiday Kissing As Mistletoe Succeeds Rare Holly | 12/21/1955 | See Source »

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