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...outfitted with costumes ranging from a $1 smock to a fancy $250 mink coat. The little homemaker will find the appurtenances of the wonderful world of dolls more realistic than ever: from France comes an nin. metal shower ($9.95) that uses water, and from Japan a stove-and-sink combination ($3.95) with a burner that lights up and a tap that runs water, and a battery-operated automatic washing machine ($3) that washes doll clothes almost as efficiently as its adult counterpart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Challenge for Parents | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...enormity of the crime committed against the U.S. and against U.S. labor by racketeering labor bosses has only begun to sink home, despite the procession of headlines from the Senate committee on labor racketeering. Among the first to grasp the full meaning of it all-and the meaning of the anti-labor kickback that is bound to come-is the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s blunt President George Meany. Last week Meany told a union convention in Washington just how shocked he was at what he found out over the last two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A Shocking Thing | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Well aware of the dislike and distrust in which he was held by Victoria's subjects for most of his life, Albert himself was wisely self-effacing. "The position of Prince Consort requires that the husband should entirely sink his own individual existence in that of his wife," he wrote. But at a time when the Queen could still conduct diplomacy with other chiefs of state over the head of her government, he carried the key to Victoria's dispatch boxes, served as his wife's guide, mentor, confidant and private secretary, drafted her state orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Queen's Husband | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...same time. Victor's chartmakers spent all winter planning recording schedules. The company transformed the Rome Opera's marble-floored foyer into a sound booth lined with $50,000 worth of triple-track tape recorders, loudspeakers, amplifiers and oscillators. With promotion and distribution costs, Victor figures to sink $250,000 in Butterfly with a relatively unknown cast of young singers headed by Philadelphia-bred Soprano Anna Moffo, $250,000 in Tosca, which features such established names as Soprano Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Tenor Jussi Bjoerling (Cavaradossi), Baritone Leonard Warren (Scarpia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Recording in Italy | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...could you sink so low in your June 10 issue to further the business profits of Los Angeles Art Dealer Martin Lowitz, a man using a lot of copycats who copy the works of another for profit and who obviously have no talent to create, or are lacking in ethical standards? FRANK O. HAMILTON Belvedere, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

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