Word: automatisms
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...shocking exploit of two British Security policemen who toured a London suburb in Nazi uniforms unmolested (TIME, Feb. 2), decided to see whether it could happen here. Dressed as German U-boat commanders, William B. Mellor Jr. and Frank Toughill wandered about downtown Philadelphia, talked German in a crowded automat, peering suspiciously at defense plants, asked a traffic cop questions in broken English. Only interest they aroused was from a small boy on roller skates. Said he: "Oh, boy! Join the Navy and see the world...
...French worker would never be content with half an hour for lunch and he never would go into an automat for ready-made food. No, our worker likes to eat well and with discrimination. He goes home for lunch, if he lives near the factory, and . . . he is apt to get a better-prepared and more varied meal...
...Wall Street's Old Guard had given way to its Young Turks. New Dealish, optimistic, they rallied behind Newcomer Martin in a campaign to re-establish the Exchange's good name. Bachelor Martin was only 31, sobersided, athletic, a good-natured mathematics whiz who ate in the Automat, wore no hat, and dabbled at writing plays in which he admitted he could never make the heroines sound natural. Blessed by President Roosevelt and Bill Douglas, no-smoking, no-drinking Bill Martin took up his $48,000 job amid a shower of bouquets from all sides...
...made many tunes go strong, too (Collegiate, In My Gondola, Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More, etc.). The pluggers used to clutter up Fred's Broadway office, but now Fred has a different arrangement. He meets them once a week for lunch in a Broadway Automat cafeteria, talks over their wares, matches them for the check...
...change from the days when Richard Whitney sat there in regal isolation. He irked crusty conservatives by letting photographers attend his first board meeting and also take pictures on the floor during trading hours. But chiefly he astonishes his broker associates by eating at the Automat, living at the Yale Club, spurning an automobile as too expensive, preferring to study or sit in a theatre balcony to splurging at some swank Long Island resort...