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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 1983 | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...Woolworth's, boasting enough mark-down tags to make it clear this is not the next Rubik's Cube, are a pile of half-sized plastic swivel chairs. On each there's a label, like the ones men wear at conventions that say "Hi! I'm Bob, General Consolidated (ret.)" Only these say "Hi! I'm a swivel chair." Truth in advertising and all that...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Toys for the Real Generation | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

Without resentment, he watches a generation of writers imitate his style and similes. Without vanity, he tries to fer ret out the reasons for his own success: "There are better plotters than I am, and much better idea men, but it doesn't seem to matter. When they write the scene, there is no magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Private Eye as Man off Letters | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...John B. Mahony U.S.A.F. (ret.) Bountiful, Utah

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 31, 1981 | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

William V. Sayner Colonel, U.S.A.R. (ret.) LaGrange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 6, 1981 | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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