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...William Ray, an 80-year-old barber of Lowell, Ohio (pop. 1,000), was still using the same wooden chair and the same leather soap bowl with which he started barbering 58 years ago, and still charging the same prices: haircut 15?, shave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Grab Bag. In Paris, police were alerted to watch out for the thief who stole a leather case containing a live, nine-foot python...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...staid khaki pants worn by Harvard football players for generations have now gone the way of such venerable football lore as handlebar mustaches and leather elbow patches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Look Brightens Soldiers Field | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...staid khaki pants worn by Harvard football players for generations have now gone the way of such venerable football lore as handlebar mustaches and leather elbow patches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Look Brightens Soldiers Field | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

Uncatalogued in the subterranean passages beneath the Abbey is a curious collection of debris: leather-bound ledgers recording 700 years of the Abbey's life; stuffed birds and animals from its zoological collection; the molten pipes of its great 17th Century organ, contorted into weird sausage shapes; rusting German machine guns with ammunition belts still attached. On the dark walls are crude sketches of female figures traced by homesick German soldiers, and a Rhenish landscape with the caption Oh, du wun-derschöner Deutscher Rhein (Oh, you beautiful German Rhine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Succisa Virescit | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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