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Brad Pitt Listens to Frank Ocean, Marvin Gaye After Divorce

May 3, 2017 11:27 AM EDT After a very public split from longtime partner Angelina Jolie last year, it looks like Brad Pitt is coping with the breakup by turning to the arts for solace. In an interview with GQ Style, where Pitt talks at length about his divorce and giving up alcohol among other things, he also revealed a newfound affinity for R&B. “I just got R&B for the first time,” he said.

Business: A & F Lives

TIME September 1, 1980 12:00 AM EDT Elephant guns go for $40,000 The self-proclaimed “greatest sporting goods store in the world” is back. Abercrombie & Fitch’s classy clientele included heads of state from Theodore Roosevelt to King Hussein, and its bison suede coat, for example, was considered a steal at $2,000. A&F, however, slid into bankruptcy three years ago after a long battle with less prestigious, but more practical, retailers. Now Houston’s Oshman’s Sporting Goods has bought the firm’s name and mystique, and this week it is opening in Dallas the first full-size new Abercrombie & Fitch store.

COLD WAR: The Spirit of Camp David

Since Khrushchev met Eisenhower at the President’s retreat in the Maryland hills, Soviet propagandists have been making great play with what they call “the spirit of Camp David,” a 1959 model to replace the spirit of Geneva and the Bandung spirit. The formula is simple: appropriate a place name where talks were held but agreements not reached, then invoke it to imply common agreement of whatever you are for, or to deplore whatever you dislike.

CORPORATIONS: Minute Maid's Man | TIME

In the middle of a round of golf one day last spring, Capitalist John Hay Whitney and Crooner Bing Crosby began to talk about—of all things—frozen orange juice concentrate. “Jock” Whitney thought he had hold of a good business proposition, and by the time they had got to the 19th Bing was all ears. Last week the Whitney-dominated Vacuum Foods Corp. (Minute Maid frozen orange juice concentrate) announced the deal they made.

Dead Facebook Users Will Soon Outnumber Living, Study Says

The dead will eventually outnumber the living on Facebook, according to a new study whose authors want us to think more about the importance of preserving our collective digital histories. The phenomenon could take place within the next 50 years, though will likely take longer, according to a research paper from the University of Oxford Internet Institute published April 23 in the journal Big Data & Society. The study’s authors, Carl J.