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...only thing I can add to your article is that President Reagan uses religion like a trolley car. He rides it only while it is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 11, 1983 | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...years the dimpled dumplings known as the Campbell's Soup kids have been among the most familiar and successful symbols in advertising. When the kids first appeared in posters on New York City trolley cars, Cy Young was on the mound for the Boston Somersets (now the Red Sox) and Enrico Caruso was winding up his first American opera season. Cherubic and definitely chubby, the kids have always conveyed the message that children raised on "M'm! M'm! Good!" Campbell's soups will grow up healthy and happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cherubic but Not as Chubby | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...race" that would be reborn in Communism. Pistol-packing Diego trooped about in work shoes, and Frida in elaborate peasant skirts and blouses, her hair bound with ribbons, her fingers weighted with rings. But the finery hid terrible wounds. In 1925 a bus carrying Kahlo was struck by a trolley car. Rescuers found the 18-year-old girl impaled on an iron rod, her pelvis smashed, a foot mangled and her spine bent to nearly a right angle. Frida endured more than 30 operations in her lifetime. None of them stopped the degeneration of her bones. At times she lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wound and the Brush | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Perhaps the most surrealistic vision of how to cope with a nuclear war is offered by Mark Hacker, a graduate student in architecture at Princeton University. He has designed the ultimate fallout shelter: an underground city, complete with apartments and trolley cars, for 30,000 people. The metropolis would be 300 ft. to 500 ft. underground and be able to survive any nuclear blast, save for, possibly, a direct hit. Once residents entered the city, however, the exits would be sealed, and they would never again return to the earth's surface. Robert Kingsbury take note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First, Grab a Crowbar . . . | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

Year after year, I would count down the days until baseball returned. On that fateful day, skipping school, I would stand in line for bleacher tickets. On the trolley, everyone seemed to be wearing a Red Sox cap, carrying a radio and talking baseball...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Lunch With the Red Sox | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

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