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...negotiators sat silent for minutes at a time, pulling on cigars or cigarettes and staring morosely into space. On streamlined, shocking-pink armchairs sat the stubborn coal operators: George Love, Joseph Moody, Harvey Cartwright, Harry Moses; the stubborn miners: Thomas Kennedy, John Owens, William Mitch. On a pea-green sofa sat the grandiloquent John L. Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Man on the Pea-Green Sofa | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...expenses. Godfrey, a licensed airman with more than 4,000 flying hours, commutes from New York in his Navion and twin-engine Beech planes, and always buzzes Beacon Hill before landing at nearby Leesburg. He spends about half of each week in the comfortable house, often sprawled on a sofa in T-shirt and slacks, watching rival comics on TV and dozing through "intellectual" shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Oceans of Empathy | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

Taking time off from winter chores, Farmer Booth slipped off his buttoned sweater and sat down on the living-room sofa in his blue denim shirt. The farm, he figured, was worth better than $125,000. Last year he sold his hogs for $27,600. He got $10,169 for his corn, $9,216 for his wheat. "I just figured up my income tax and it scared me," he admitted. "I paid more this year than I ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: Family Trip | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

Desseau was next seen Tuesday morning in the Union Common Room. A freshman reported seeing the missing student asleep on a sofa. A toilet kit which he had taken when he left Stillman on Sunday was beside him. Wednesday he was found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missing Freshman Turns Up, Will Leave College, Go Home | 1/21/1950 | See Source »

...unidentified freshman reported he had seen Desseau in the Union Common Room after breakfast Tuesday, sleeping on a sofa next to a kit of toilet articles. Except for this, no one has seen Desseau since he left Stillman Sunday--not even his roommate or closest friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student States Desseau Last Seen Tuesday | 1/19/1950 | See Source »

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