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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kaplan also went on to write books in 16 subject areas for the Barron's Regent Series. "Mr. Barron started small like I did in a little store in Brooklyn, and I don't know how many times I came in to tell him about the mistakes he was making in his books," said Kaplan, who today has branches in Switzerland, Toronto and San Juan. Kaplan says that Barron finally told him to put up or shut up, and gave him his first chance at writing a textbook...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Horatio Alger, With Chutzpah | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...person with whom one's daughter lives? "Lover" is too archaically lubricious by a shade or two. "Roommate" sounds like a freshman dorm. "Bedmate" is too sexually specific, but "friend" is too sweetly platonic. "Boyfriend" and "girlfriend" are a bit adolescent. "Partner" sounds as if they run a hardware store together. The Census Bureau calls them "Partners of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters" or PossLQs. Mrs. Billie Jenkins, an elegant hostess who lives on Boston's Beacon Hill, has developed a rather sweet technique for inviting living-together couples to her parties. "I send an invitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Manners | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...will grow much more. Maxwell Sroge, a Chicago-based mail-order consultant, goes so far as to assert that catalogue sales may prove to be the biggest revolution in shopping ever. Says he: "If you have insomnia, you can shop at four in the morning. It's a store that never closes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Is the Store Becoming Obsolete? | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...dogs or cats ($18) to an edible Monopoly set made of several kinds of chocolate ($600), and a Wooton desk that once belonged to Queen Victoria ($150,000). In Manhattan, trendy Bloomingdale's is countering with the perfect gift for the aspiring Truman Capote for $100,000 the store will arrange a holiday party for 500 at New York City's Lincoln Center culture temple that includes cocktails, dinner and a ballet performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Is the Store Becoming Obsolete? | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...microwave ovens, drinking water and aerosol cans, and helped reopen the case of Peter Reilly, the young Connecticut man unjustly convicted of killing his mother. The magazine's last-page "Final Tribute" column was the last, often eloquent word on such endangered species as the country general store, George Wallace and, in the current issue, the Ford Pinto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Final Tribute | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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