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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported a strange coincidence regarding TIME'S story on him in our Aug. 15 Business & Finance department. "On the day the story appeared," he said, "I boarded a plane going to Dallas. A woman sitting next to me was reading a copy of TIME when all of a sudden she burst out with 'Oh, my goodness!' Everybody on the plane turned around and she exclaimed, pointing to my picture, 'I'm sitting beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...they have both enjoyed the pre-matrimonial favors of Clutterbuck's wife (Claire Carleton). From there in, the play concentrates on how the six of them purr and perspire, recall the past and are moved to repeat it; on their catting and torn catting, their hurried feints and sudden swoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...approximately 13 years after that, hardly anything was heard about Seltzer's contribution to organized Armageddon. Then, aided by an increase in the number of television-owners, the Roller Derby all of a sudden sprang full-blown, much like Canasta. The true aficionado knows at least a few of the regular contes-around quite so fast as the men, who hit 35 m.p.h., but they provide more action, past performances and thus he knows who is good and who isn't, who the rough one are and who the fast ones are. This, of course, heightens the interest when...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

...partnership ended in 1936 when Bill Benton resigned, filled with a sudden zeal for public service and good works. He went to the University of Chicago as vice president, bought the Encyclopaedia Britannica in partnership with the university, also picked up a few other businesses (including Muzak, which pipes canned music into restaurants and cocktail lounges). Shortly after World War II, he became Assistant Secretary of State in charge of selling the U.S. to the world with the Voice of America. Chester Bowles, who left the ad business several years after Benton, went to Washington himself as chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: B&B | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the war and its aftermath have not brought in their wake any sudden upturn in business ethics. And while most local tradesmen treat students fairly, there are always a few on the periphery of the Square business world who are governed by the famous motto of P. T. Barnum. The recent rash of threatened suits against a local furniture dealer is evidence of this condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Consumer First Aid | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

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