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Concerning your shameful Scrutiny article of January 15: I wouldn't object to (nor, God forbid, would I read) Georgette Heyer novels (if novel is the word I want) or to their prune-brained simpering advocates if dime-store penny-dreadfuls like The Grand Sophy were not crowding the few...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUT, OUT DAMN SPOT | 1/20/1976 | See Source »

Hanging over one of the higher window panes in Frank Fisher's office in the back of 54 Dunster Street is a small lead frame with the stained glass image of a carrot and stick superimposed upon a square Crimson H. The office itself is a brown study of spartan...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Plotting Your Horoscope | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

Whatever the reason for the strong Christmas sales performance, it can only please economists, who have been counting on consumer buying to keep the recovery rolling, and who were mildly worried by a flattening out of retail sales last fall after a strong spurt in spring and early summer. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Santa the Supersalesman | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

Especially children's books. At the Christmas season hundreds of new volumes beckon, each with an appealing dust jacket, each with the promise of juvenile delight. It is only upon close examination that the fantasy turns out to be a dream of Ebenezer Scrooge: volumes shaped like rabbits, turtles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CHILDREN'S BOOKS | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

Real G.N.P. shot up at an 11.2% annual rate in the third quarter, mostly because businessmen at last stopped living off their shelves and out of their warehouses and started filling sales orders from new production. The end of inventory liquidation gave the economy a one-shot jolt that will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Seeking an End to the Global Slump | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

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