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...long ago as 1925, Sears Executive Robert Wood saw that the automobile would alter our way of life. He began locating Sears stores away from city centers and provided large parking lots. This led to a revolution in retailing and influenced the economic decline of central cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Sears | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...Patty Wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 3, 1984 | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...ones in particular, most have been avid readers of a bimonthly called WoodenBoat, and most have dreamed of acquiring the skills necessary to build their own craft. But few have had the time or the freedom to apprentice themselves to the small number of American boatbuilders who work in wood. "I'd like nothing better than to take a year off and learn the trade," says Alan ("Dusty") Rhoades, a Navy lieutenant commander attached to Atlantic Fleet headquarters in Norfolk, Va. "But I've got a family to support, kids to put through college. I needed an alternative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Class Project Must Float | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...Jackson has been on a working vacation at the Jesuit-run University of Scranton, teaching a master class in acting for a hand-picked group of twelve students from throughout the U.S. She has her charges reading from Shakespeare's sonnets and Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, using the accents of small-town America, and says, "That works out fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 27, 1984 | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

Should marriage vows cover more than five years? Must infants be so swaddled? Need adolescents feel guilt? Before televison cameras, on hundreds of lecture platforms, in thousands of lines of print, Margaret Mead emphatically doubted it. Flouncing her cape, thumping her cherry-wood walking stick and shouting, "Fiddlesticks!" (her battle cry against cant), she became one of those native oracles, full of cranky common sense and hearty exhortation that Americans cannot resist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Most Famous Anthropologist | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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