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Texas. In Houston, where two wealthy householders have already built bomb shelters, a contractor sent out 7,500 brochures advertising a $2,000, igloo-shaped shelter that can house ten people. A Teaneck, N.J. concrete company advertised that bomb shelters "won't be a total loss even if there are no atomic-bomb explosions, because they can be used as wine cellars or utility rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Golden Opportunities | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

Later, he and his wife moved to Teaneck, N.J., and then to a Manhattan apartment on 97th Street just off Riverside Drive. Their friends, who dropped in for informal Sunday-night literary sessions, included Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Captain George (now Sir Hubert) Wilkins, Poets Constance Lindsay Skinner, Sara Teasdale, Horace Gregory; literary critic-to-be Lewis Gannett; Author and Geographer Earl Parker Hanson; Latin celebrities like the painter Zuloaga and famed Bullfighter Juan Belmonte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the People | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Higher Education. In Teaneck, N.J., Louis Rich, 85, enrolled as a freshman at Bergen Junior College, explained: "I'm sick & tired of just the movies and radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Teaneck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Bartender William Damrau, of nearby Teaneck, just pondered his business life ("All a bartender gets is headaches"), his home life ("My wife squawked bloody murder"), and his $40,000 with the same triumphant grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Sudden Violence | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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