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In the meantime, the MacKenzie tie--a thin bow-tie--is being sold all over the country with New Haven stores about to start stocking it for Yale. Ten stores in Los Angeles and three in Texas carry the ties, about 12,000 of which have been sold.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Busy School Tie-Men Consider Selling Out Cash-Making Venture | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

A young man in slacks and sport shirt planted his stocking feet beside the microphone, began bleating plaintively, picking a lackadaisical guitar. At his back were five other musicians - pianist, bass fiddler and three more guitarists - all working without written music. Sang the fellow in stocking feet:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tin Pan Valley | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Consumers had stopped stocking up on goods, because many of the shortages which were forecast so gloomily six months ago have not materialized. Automobile production is running about equal to last year's rate. This week, the 3,000,000th car of the year will roll off U.S. assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Inflation Delayed | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

When an odd-looking man in a stocking cap and dark glasses stopped at Allen Stamm's home near Santa Fe, N. Mex., nine-year-old Linda Stamm went to the door to see what he wanted. He wanted to take her to her mother, who was at a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Visit from the Doctor | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

The prisoner, who was carrying a .25 caliber automatic, looked and was dressed like a man. But to the cops' astonishment, the prisoner not only turned out to be a woman, but a person well known and respected in the neighborhood. The prisoner, wearing a coarse red jacket, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Visit from the Doctor | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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