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...Hotel last week, some 14,500 people milled through a maze of cages, inspecting hundreds of fluffy little animals with faces like rabbits and tails like anemic squirrels. The animals were chinchillas; the occasion was the Eastern show of the National Chinchilla Breeders of America, a sort of Westmin ster Kennel Club for rodents and the trade association for one of the strangest businesses in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Regal Rodents | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

Author d'Eaubonne affects to have translated her novel from the 16th Century Flemish memoir of one Jan van Ster-teen, an atheistic painter who, toward the year 1595, met up in London with a traveling mountebank named Jonathan William Anthony Oldhorse. Oldhorse, a born leader, forms a blood-brotherhood between the Fleming, a gay young Frenchman named Marie-Jean-Pierre Saint-Benoist, and a pensive Jew named Jacob Keepjeke. They all agree to obey Old-horse to the death, and soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fall Foliage | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

Typical of the mushrooming new industry is Tennessee's Boot-ster Manufacturing Co. It puts out a plastic spatlike gadget that fits over a boy's shoe, thus "makes any shoe a cowboy boot." J. Z. Miller, part owner of two small department stores, got the idea for his Boot-ster when he overheard parents complaining of the high cost ($5 and up), high heels and narrow toes of boys' cowboy boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Moppets' Stampede | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...teamed up with Lloyd Easterling, an office supplies dealer, and they began making Boot-sters as a sideline. Soon it became their main line. From $75,000 in the first nine months, sales streaked to $250,000 last year. Now Boot-ster has added plastic cowboy cuffs, lariats and spurs, expects to gross $1,000,000 this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Moppets' Stampede | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Charlottesville Oct. 18 Holy Cross Oct. 25 Dartmouth Nov. 1 Rutgers Nov. 8 Princeton Nov. 15 Brown Nov. 22 Yale at New Haven VARSITY SOCCER Oct. 4 Tufts at Medford Oct. 10 Army at West Point Oct. 18 Amherst at Amherst Oct. 25 Dartmouth Nov. 1 W're'ster P.I. at W're'ster Nov. 8 Princeton Nov. 15 Brown Nov. 21 Yale at New Haven JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL Oct. 24 Dartmouth Oct. 31 Open Nov. 7 Princeton Nov. 14 Brown at Providence Nov. 21 Yale at New Haven FRESHMAN FOOTBALL Oct. 11 Andover at Andover Oct. 18 Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Sports Schedule | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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