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...flavor--even a musty smell--of yesterday, a bit of immortality." Rohrer keeps all his yesterdays in a drawer at home. Quinn keeps the family immortality collection snug in a bank vault, although his journalist wife Joan has been known to wear several pieces of it, simultaneously, on her wrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Seems Like Old Time | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...eloquent testimony to the persistent high stylishness of premium wristwatches that jewelry shops in Milan and Paris will display a 1920s Patek Philippe, made of platinum and curved to conform to the wrist, right next to a new gold model. Antique stores in London will sell, say, a reversible Jaeger- le Coultre or a vintage Audemars Piguet, with only two small windows at the top of the solid gold case, as objets of decorative jewelry, like a piece of Lalique crystal. On the tony reaches of Madison Avenue, Watch Entrepreneur Stewart Unger last fall opened Time Will Tell, a watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Seems Like Old Time | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...other, it was bound to be Alpha Otis Stephens' last night. First he tried killing himself, during his last lonely hours in a cell, by slashing at one wrist with a safety razor. He bled only a little. Then, just after midnight, the state of Georgia undertook to kill him. The 39-year-old murderer, looking scared, was strapped into the electric chair, electrodes fastened to his shaved head and shaved right leg. Superintendent Ralph Kemp counted to three, a volunteer executioner pushed a button, and 2,080 volts, 20 times the charge in a household socket, coursed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Out of Appeals | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...Wrist slaps for running mates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Trail | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...Green's Jelf Lenoard spoiled Harvard goalie Grant Blair's bid for his seventh career shutout with just 3:32 left to play, when Leonard's foot shot caromed off the netminder's wrist into...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six... Eleven! | 12/15/1984 | See Source »

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