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...United States Time Corp. of Middlebury, Conn., proudly boasts that one of its Timex watches recently swallowed by a Texas farmer's cow ran as good as new when the farmer retrieved it. Like the cow, U.S. jewelers know how it feels to swallow Timex. At first they opposed carrying Timex's low-cost, low-profit watches, but Timex is now the nation's fastest-selling timepiece. Since the first Timex was sold twelve years ago, Americans have bought 50 million of them and U.S. Time has become the world's largest watchmaker (1962 sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Watches for an Impulse | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...March 25 Third Timex All-Star Circus (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Joe E. Brown acts as TV ringmaster for the Bertram Mills Circus of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 24, 1961 | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...Read your May 23 article on the Frank Sinatra Timex Show and agreed with every word. All I've heard since Elvis Presley came home from Germany is how he's bigger than ever. All I can say is that when they had one of his movies here last week most of the teen-agers sat and laughed. I am, by the way, 17 years old and I laughed too. CAROL BRISCOE Wenatchee, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...commercial for the Frank Sinatra Timex Show was taped at Marine Studios, Marineland, Fla. and not Miami Beach as stated in your magazine. Our porpoises are educated and well-behaved and, furthermore, not at all greasy. ANDRÉ COWAN St. Augustine, Fla. Trainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

First briefly introduced in full-dress uniform under waving flags, amid the sound of military trumpets and carefully cued hoyden screams, he had to wait for his big moment until later in the show, just after John Cameron Swayze had pulled a heartily ticking Timex watch out of the mouth of a Miami Beach porpoise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: One of the Worst | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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