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Levi Strauss & Co. (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ ˈ s t r aʊ s / LEE-vy STROWSS) is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ z / LEE-vyze) brand of denim jeans.It was founded in May 1853 [9] when German-Jewish immigrant Levi Strauss moved from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco, California, to open a West Coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business.
TV Guide is an American biweekly magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes.
The prototype of what would become TV Guide Magazine was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), [5] who was the circulation director of MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Cowles Media Company – distributing magazines focusing on movie celebrities.
Levi Strauss (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ ˈ s t r aʊ s / LEE-vy STROWSS; born Löb Strauß, German: [løːp ˈʃtʁaʊs]; February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm of Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) began in 1853 in San Francisco, California. [1] [2]
TV Guide cover archive website: 1950s; TV Guide: Fifty Years of Television, New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 2002. ISBN 1-4000-4685-8; Stephen Hofer, ed., TV Guide: The Official Collectors Guide, Braintree, Mass.: BangZoom Publishers, 2006. ISBN 0-9772927-1-1. "50 Greatest TV Guide Covers," article from the June 15, 2002 edition of TV Guide
April 3 – TV Guide is published for the first time in the United States, with 10 editions and a circulation of 1,562,000. May 1 – Czechoslovak Television becomes the first television station in the country when it officially begins a regular broadcasting service, from Prague ; this station will separate into Czech Television and Slovenská ...
The first crossword in Britain, according to Tony Augarde in his Oxford Guide to Word Games (1984), was in Pearson's Magazine for February 1922. Finalists competing in a crossword competition in New York City in 2019. The 2006 documentary Wordplay, about enthusiasts of The New York Times 's puzzle, increased public interest in crosswords.
Khakis were more widely worn in the US when “casual Fridays” gained popularity in offices in the late 1980s, and led to the emergence of Dockers as a popular brand. [ 5 ] Before going global in 1992, characters from the television series Cheers were prominently wearing Dockers clothing in the late 1980s, and Dockers made an appearance on an ...