Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Based on a book of reminiscences by the daughter of one of Philadelphia's oldest clans, it is set in the middle of what she claims was her family, a world dominated by a pleasantly enthusiastic millionaire who believes in having fun ("You can't save life, or store it, or put it in a vault. You have to plunge in.") The play's purpose is to show Mr. A.J. Drexel Biddle and his family plunging...
EBBETS FIELD, longtime home of Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball Club, will be turned into $25 million housing development. For an estimated $2,000,000, Dodgers have sold Ebbets Field to Manhattan Real-Estateman Marvin Kratter, associated with Financier Hanns Ditisheim who took over Chicago's Butler Bros, retail-store chain eight months ago (TIME, March 5). Kratter will lease the field to team until 1961, when he starts work on housing project...
...politician to his fingertips, Nixon is a man of consistent principle, whose values are as sound and fundamental as any in U.S. politics today. The son of a devout Quaker mother and a spirited Scots-Irish father who was a streetcar conductor and then a grocery-store operator, he grew up in the Depression and learned to take his problems head on. Always intense, serious and studious, he turned to government and politics as a boy, worked his way through law school, served as a Navy operations officer in the Pacific in World War II and got into politics full...
...Night Store. A round-the-clock store, serviced by vending machines, was opened by the Grand Union chain as part of its new supermarket in East Paterson, N.J. The devices, built into the front wall of the store, dispense milk, eggs, bread, margarine, frozen fish and meat, coffee, tea, cold cuts, make change for shoppers. Cost: $800 to $1,600 per machine...
Doug McKay, on the other hand, leaves his audiences unmoved as he races through his formal speeches (Once, after finishing a prepared speech, he looked up and said: "And now may I add a few words of my own"). He is at his best in a country store, passing out campaign cards with the wry reminder: "I'm out of a job, you know." At political coffee hours in the homes of friendly Republicans, his smiling wife Mabel passes out angel-food cake recipes while Doug attacks Wayne Morse ("that fellow has gone back on his word so many...