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He found grounds for scorn in virtually everything that crossed his irritable eye. He advocated death by artillery fire for Negroes and poor whites. A vociferous agnostic, he roared against the "whooping soul-savers." (One of his favorite letter endings: "I pray for you incessantly.") Religion, he maintained, was simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Uncommon Scold | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

IN their race for the consumer's dollar, U.S. retailers have turned the old trading-stamp gimmick into the hottest sales idea of the postwar decade. By playing on the housewife's weakness for giveaways, supermarkets and department stores have rung up astonishing records at the cash register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADING STAMPS: A Hidden Charge in the Grocery Bill | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

PARIS STOCK MARKET is booming as a result of France's economic recovery. Many small savers now have enough confidence in the future to sell their hoarded gold to invest in stocks. Some of the biggest gainers since last January: Esso Standard, which climbed from $27 to $257 per...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 13, 1954 | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

CHRISTMAS CLUB savings will beat all records this year. Starting this month, twelve million savers will get checks from 6,500 banks and clubs for a whopping $1.1 billion, an increase of $50 million over last year. Most thrifty states: New York, with $225 million; Pennsylvania, with $165 million; New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Nov. 15, 1954 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

Two months before the campaign is scheduled to begin, the first member of the Graham team arrives in town. Willis Haymaker, 57, who worked as advance man for such old-school soul-savers as Gypsy Smith and Bob Jones but thinks Billy is the greatest of them all, mobilizes the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Evangelist | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

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