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...what they call the box. Their boxes come in all sizes, with the biggest the size of suitcases and the best equipped with auxiliary tape decks. The fancy status symbols of the genre- Sanyos or Sonys or JVCs- cost up to $400, but for a mere $55 a box-toter can get a General Electric tape model that comes with a shoulder strap, a 5-in. heavy magnet speaker, an automat ic program advance, a variable tone control, an eight-track cassette player and, of course, great promise: It is called Loudmouth II. To the new breed of listener, such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Portable Music for One and All | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...located to approve bail for hours. In what Sabo claims was retaliation, Bowie County District Attorney Lynn Cooksey, a friend of Friedman's, ordered the arrest of a sheriffs deputy for carrying an unauthorized weapon Cooksey later insisted that he had been unaware of the gun toter's identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Keystone Kops | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...personally tested on the trails. In a spare, hardsell style that would be instructive to many an advertising copywriter, the catalogue once plugged a Combination Compass, Match Case and Whistle by noting that "the Whistle is loud enough to be heard a long distance." Bean's Deer Toter, a stretcher ingeniously rigged to a bicycle wheel, was described as a contrivance on which "your deer looks so much better than when dragged over the ground." The catalogue also promoted Bean's two highly successful books. One of them, Hunting, Fishing and Camping, a slender, lore-packed manual, sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salesmen: Merchant of the Maine Woods | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...ultimate in snob appeal," said Daniel R. Bronson '67, a friend of Nightingale's and a proud toter of the button, "or it is a desperate attempt to seek one's own level...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Real Harv. Studs Will Be Wearing Tell-Tail Buttons | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...182Willie ("Cemetery") Perteet, the aging (51) Georgia caddy who lost his job as President Eisenhower's exclusive club toter because the Augusta National pro decided he was "too decrepit," got a longdistance vote of confidence from Spokane. Members of the Spokane Athletic Round Table invited Cemetery to caddy in their national seniors open (for men over 50), were still undecided whether to assign him to Ike's brother Edgar (68) or Augusta Pro Ed Dudley (55), the man who fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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