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...However, before Los Angeles television viewers can jump to any conclusions, the porno-chic Deep Throat artist waves a man's oxford at them, and continues her spiel: "You're looking for comfort, variety and style. So I guess we have a lot in common. Like in shoes." It is the M. & J. Shoe Co. that has Linda Love-lacing up their product over the Southern California air waves, apparently reasoning that exploitation fits their purpose like-er-an old shoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 5, 1973 | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...fiscal year ended July 3 1, sales of Genesco's various divisions (Bonwit Teller, I. Miller, Flagg Bros. Shoes) reached a record $1.4 billion, but the company lost $53 million. To stop the drain, Franklin has decided to close 100 women's shoe stores, to sell an Italian men's clothing firm, and is even unloading the 347-unit S.H. Kress variety store chain. He has already shut down three textile plants in Tennessee and North Carolina. Together, these operations accounted for $18 million of the fiscal-1973 red ink. From now on, says Frank the Knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Nashville Knife | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

...TALL BLOND MAN WITH ONE BLACK SHOE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sad-Sack Spy | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...tall blond man with one black shoe is related to neither The Thief Who Came to Dinner nor The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun. The comedy, just about as witty and well-turned as its title, centers on the catastrophes that befall a sad-sack classical musician who is selected as a pawn by a couple of squabbling espionage outfits. Made in France, probably by rote, the movie might have remained there had it not contained several sententious asides on the evils of electronic observation and every citizen's right to privacy. They lend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sad-Sack Spy | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...match, Riggs skylarked around Houston, trying to build up the gate and have some laughs. He beat Dr. Denton Cooley, the noted heart surgeon (the purse: $100 and a free medical checkup, in which Riggs got high marks). He played one of his handicap farces with a Memphis shoe salesman, picking up a fast $100, and then took $300 in a swift one set match from Larry King, Billie Jean's husband. Billie Jean, meanwhile, was training hard by lifting weights to strengthen her ailing knee and by playing tournament tennis against the best women players around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How King Rained on Riggs' Parade | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

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