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...accosted by the murderer before the crime. The upshot for her: unsatisfactory adultery with a radio announcer. ¶A young, mentally unbalanced, would-be writer is stimulated by the newspaper stories to desire to duplicate the crime. ¶ A little Manhattan girl, her imagination fired, falsely accuses an innocent tailor of molesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Effort | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...customer who ordered a tailor-made suit from Manhattan's Richard Bennett Associates, Inc. this week got a surprise. He picked out his material and style in the usual way, but the clerk took no measurements. Instead, he led the customer into a room full of mirrors, had him stand near the center. There was a bright flash and his picture was taken. Then a harness of tape measures was draped about his chest and another picture taken. Said the clerk: "That's all. We'll mail you your suit in about a month." There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invisible Tailor | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...problem kids are rare. Every boy learns to dance and to read music. And women teachers take them to restaurants to learn all about dining out, French menus and conversation with girls. Hummers wear no special uniform; each boy's free G.I. (Girard Issue) is two new tailor-made suits a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hum Sweet Hum | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...less about Russia. With help from an unexpected quarter, they stirred Up anticlericalism in answer to the Church's anti-Communist campaign. But above all, the Communists talked about the high cost of living. In Rome's working class street, Via Gesú e Maria, a Communist tailor kept his shop open late at night. "The government was pledged to combat inflation," he told neighbors, "yet artichokes cost 70 lire each-artichokes alia Romano, have become artichokes alia signorile [of the rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fateful Day | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

After 16 years of uneasy but unbeatable Democratic unity, the political patchwork which Franklin Roosevelt had carefully stitched together was coming apart at the seams. Quite obviously, the situation called for a master tailor with a masterly political needle. And the time for him to do his repair work was at last week's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Washington. But no such wonder-worker appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Black Week | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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