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Raft, the Ritz Brothers and sundry other notables. He bought a $75,000 stucco "bungalow" in Brentwood, shared a tailor with Lou Costello, dabbled in prizefighters and bought a piece of a supermarket chain. He was anxious to cooperate with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Clay Pigeon | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...leaders stood in a little cluster, wearing the aggressively confident expressions that politicians put on when they face a pack of reporters. They let Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas do most of the talking. Recently returned to duty after a long bout with his stomach ulcers, he was a tailor's symphony in brown, and eager to make news. Congress, he said, could adjourn by July 31 or early August at the latest. The implication was clear: Harry Truman had decided not to press for a lot of his legislation this term. There were only three "must" bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Art of the Possible | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...credit. He was also in the rubber-tired buggy business, and his shop was a maze of band and rip saws and a big, power-driven sewing machine, which Mrs. Lawrence learned to operate when she was nine years old. Her father incidentally, was descended from a Parisian tailor who emigrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Makushak had succeeded, as far as police could learn, in his desire to be alone. No one except his mother had known he was there. His father, Peter, had been told years ago to stay downstairs, and he had stayed, sleeping in the back of his jumbled first-floor tailor shop and dry-goods store. Peter Makushak rarely saw his wife and believed her story that their son had gone to Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Place to Hide In | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Tailor and Chin's Laundry are again holding forth side by side, this time at 87 and 85 Mt. Auburn Street instead of 23 and 21 Boylston. The Harvard Bookstore is located in the former Social Security Office at 1248 Massachusetts Avenue, the agency having shuttled off to 2 Trowbridge Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Boylston Street Shops Seek New Square Locales | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

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