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World Congress of Flight (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). A symposium on man's battle to get as far off the ground as he can, conducted by NATO's General Lauris Norstad, Physicist Edward Teller, Test Pilot Scott Crossfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

Last week Manhattan's oldest fur store had a new owner. Walter Hoving's Hoving Corp., which already operates 60-year-old Bonwit Teller next door and nearby 121-year-old Tiffany & Co., added Gunther-Jaeckel, Inc. to its string. In taking control of Gunther-Jaeckel, Hoving got more of the kind of elegant tradition he likes, also a challenge to his merchandising skill (Gunther-Jaeckel last paid a dividend in 1945). But fellow merchants figured he would soon figure out a way to fit Gunther-Jaeckel into his spreading operation. Pursuing a policy of aggressive expansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: No. 3 for Hoving | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Last week Georgia's ten hard-selling Citizens & Southern National Banks popped out the latest variation, advertised "Instant MONEY-Cash Loans Within 20 Seconds." The C. & S. device is a charge card that enables one to draw immediate cash up to thousands of dollars from any C. & S. teller's window, or to charge consumer goods at 1,000 Georgia stores. At month's end, the cardholder gets a single bill from the bank. Last week C. & S. was busy mailing cards to 100,000 customers, and offering them to all other good credit risks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CREDIT: For Everything | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Last week a tipster ("He called himself 'ABC' ") led Trimble to the story that New York's freshman Democratic Representative Ludwig Teller had an aide named Mrs. Sylvia B. McNamee (Government salary: $13,334) who ran a private insurance business out of his district office in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Digger on Capitol Hill | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...fails to grasp the cold-war challenge of space, the prediction of Hungarian-born Physicist Edward Teller may come dismally true. Asked what he expected the first U.S. spacemen to find when they get to the moon, Teller gave the grim reply: "Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: On Pain of Extinction | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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