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...plastic furniture is (Eastman boast) impervious to sun, rain, fading. It is made by Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Co. out of strips and strings extruded by Detroit Macoid Corp. from Tennessee Eastman's Tenite II. Tentatively priced from $17 for a small chair to $50 for a section sofa, it is already on display in leading stores, should go on sale in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLASTICS: Test-Tube Love Seat | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...cane chairs and a sofa in the bright-colored little sunroom, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: On the Hunt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Interviewed on her 75th birthday as she sat on a sofa draped with a tiger skin in her pink-walled London apartment, Elinor ("It") Glyn, British novelist who writes nowadays only when she has "passionate thoughts that will help humanity," explained: "I have an immense passion for tigers. When I go to a zoo I have a most peculiar effect on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Sorer than the Senators were the Washington correspondents. They did not like the picture's first shot of a Washington correspondent lying tight and tousled on a sofa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Smith Riles Washington | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...September 3 last, Ambassador Kennedy ordered his No. 2 Personal Secretary James Seymour to form a small staff for regular night duty. Seymour bought a collapsible cot (by day it is folded up behind the Ambassador's black sofa) and took the first "lobster trick." He had no nap that night or since. By 3 a. m. he phoned Ambassador Kennedy at his country house that the Athenia was sinking, torpedoed by a German submarine, with 1,418 people aboard, some 300 of them Americans (TIME, Sept. 11. Kennedy cabled to Franklin Roosevelt: "All on Athenia rescued except those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: London Legman | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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