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...onetime schoolmarm from Utah, Mrs. Peterson has crisscrossed the country organizing consumer conferences and censuring petty-minded manufacturers who, in her words, find it "profitable to confuse." The wife of a State Department officer and a mother of four, she does her own shopping, makes a practice of challenging dumfounded clerks to explain which products are the best buys. Denounced at first by the food industry-which has since heeded many of her suggestions-Mrs. Peterson received angry letters addressed to "Mrs. Snoopy." In defense of her mission, she points-out that in contrast to yesteryear's corner grocery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Guardian of the Gullible | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). For Two Lovers, MGM built New Zealand in Culver City, cast Shirley MacLaine as a spinster schoolmarm who has this frigidity problem with men - like Laurence Harvey and Jack Hawkins. The result is somewhat Metro-Goldwyn-Maori...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 11, 1966 | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...BALLOU. Two no-good gunfighters (both played to perfection by Lee Marvin) brighten a way-out western about a schoolmarm (Jane Fonda) who trades readin' and writin' for a catch-up course in train robbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books, Best Sellers: Aug. 20, 1965 | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

...BALLOU. Two no-good gunfighters (both played to perfection by Lee Marvin) brighten a way-out western about a schoolmarm (Jane Fonda) who trades readin' and writin' for a catch-up course in train robbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Aug. 13, 1965 | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...BALLOU. The funniest if not the fastest gun in the West is Lee Marvin, a double-barreled delight in his portrayals of two desperadoes, one determined to help and one to hinder the schemes of a pistol-packing schoolmarm (Jane Fonda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Sellers: Jul. 30, 1965 | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

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