Modern Living: The News on T Shirts

Americans usually keep up with current events by reading newspapers and magazines and watching television. Now they have their choice of still another news medium: the T shirt. Not long after a warrant was issued for the arrest of Angela Davis, for example, a

T shirt appeared on store counters bearing her likeness. Shortly after Mystery Man "D.B. Cooper" parachuted from a skyjacked Northwest Airlines 727, a T shirt went on sale illustrated with a parachute-borne satchel, a vanishing jet and the question "D.B. Cooper, where are you?"

Now T-shirt journalism has established a new deadline record of sorts. Last week, even while...

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