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...special-detail fireman may prowl among the couples at the candle-light supper planned for next Saturday by the Freshman Union Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union May Hire Fireman to Come To Candle Dinner | 2/5/1955 | See Source »

...sell their products, the Swansons also go right to the housewife. Clarke Swanson likes to prowl supermarket food counters, see for himself how housewives shop. Says he: "I watch them pick up a package, drop it, pick up another, look at the picture. Finally, they put something in the basket. Then I ask them why." One thing he found was that the picture on the package was just as important as the price tag. As a result. Swanson packages all have bright, tempting wrappers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Help in the Kitchen | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

Cinemactor Marlon Brando, who used to prowl around Hollywood in a T shirt and sneakers, was assuming a strangely respectable air. Two months ago, in France, he announced that he was "officially engaged" to Josane Mariani-Berenger, 19, stepdaughter of a French fisherman. Many Brando fans prophesied that their erratic hero was having one of his passing romances. But last week the young actor, to all appearances a resolutely changed man, returned from France on the liner United States. Asked by waiting newsmen about his intentions, he snapped: "It is not a publicity stunt, and I do intend to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...prowl as guest conductor, youthful old (79) Maestro Pierre ("Papa") Monteaux, onetime of the San Francisco Symphony (TIME, April 21, 1952), drew rave notices and the season's biggest crowd at a Chicago summer concert. "Beethoven had real prospects as a composer," said he afterwards in his dressing room. "If he had lived longer, he might have fulfilled his promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 2, 1954 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

Outside the Chicago Maternity Center, in the sweltering slums just south of the Loop, sidewalk vendors hawk their wares: secondhand suits, used razor blades, bottles of Dr. Pryor's Jinx Removing Bath Crystals. After dark, dope pushers, prostitutes and gangs of toughs prowl the soiled asphalt. Yet, unlike cops and truant officers, center staffers are seldom molested in the neighborhood. Even the hoods greet them on their rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Baby Commandos | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

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