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...coat & suit business," said Adolph Schuman, "you either got to think or die." As president of San Francisco's Lilli Ann Corp., 43-year-old Cloak & Suiter Schuman has done plenty of thinking and thus his company is in the best of corporate health. Starting out 18 years ago with $2,000 borrowed from a bank, he has built up his clothing company (named after his wife) to the point where it grossed $7,100,000 last year, selling through 1,400 retail stores. Last week Schuman showed off the results of some of his thinking: he opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: The Schuman Plan | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

Pseudo Pachuco. His mastery of border Spanish and his ability to imitate a Mexican pachuco (zoot-suiter) led him into a career as an undercover agent. As such, he worked all over the U.S., and at one point fought his way out of a nest of six knife-wielding junkies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Teacher's Nightmare | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

True, we have our share of eccentrics . . . but let me assure you that everyone in the Los Angeles area and especially those living in the San Gabriel Valley knew about and feared the exploits of Space Suiter Forrest Ray Colson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1951 | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

Jampec (pronounced yam-petz), the Budapest imitation of the U.S. zoot suiter, was under severe attack from Hungary's Communist government. The government flayed the jampec as a sinister penetration of U.S. "barbaric culture" into Hungarian social life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Barbaric Culture | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...Debate Council clinched the 1950 Ivy League debate championship, Thursday, beating Cornell in the negative of the national topic: "Resolved, That the U.S. nationalize all basic non-agricultural industries." Richard W. Hulbert '51 and John H. Suiter debated for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debate Team Takes 1st Ivy League Crown | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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