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Gone Fishing. Equally haphazard is Shelburne's general store, a zany montage of barbershop, country doctor's office, dentist's cubicle, post office and taproom whose shelves are laden with jars of candy and patent nostrums. A faint smell of peppermint is always in the air, and...
> The possibility of commodity shortages not only panicked European housewives, who in many places swept shelves bare of sugar and spices, but also sent excited shivers through the world's commodities markets. Futures prices went up sharply on tin, rubber, sugar, grains and potatoes.
Died. Alfred E. Lyon, 81, longtime head of Philip Morris, Inc. as president (1945-49) and board chairman (1949-57); of cancer; in Stamford, Conn. An ebullient Britisher, Lyon arrived in the U.S. in 1912 and swiftly showed his Yank cousins what the word salesman meant, getting dealers to push...
A Certain Pride. Prudently, Ulbricht has allowed some of the economic rewards to trickle down to the consumers, who now enjoy the highest standard of living in the East bloc. The monthly average wage has risen 10% in the past six years, to $158, and there is more to buy...
Current smokes include almost anything from the supermarket spice and herb shelves plus dried hydrangea leaves, chlorine-soaked lettuce, and green peppers (aged until rotten, then used as a bulbous cigarette filter). But far and away the biggest new fad is tripping on banana peels.