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...Street. Unlike the Titanic story, when Times editors, working with scattered wireless reports, scooped the world, there were no great news beats this time. At 12:34 a.m. Associated Press sent out the first bulletin, and the first radio bulletins followed soon after with the barest facts. By 2:30 a.m. every Manhattan morning paper-the Times, the Herald Tribune, the News, the Mirror-was on the street with bulletins and sketchy stories. The A.P. alone had 35 men on the story by 7 a.m., wirephotoed its first aerial pictures of the stricken ships by 8:35 a.m., fully...
...about that from our readers, believe me! Now, I'm happy to say, our 1,100 people at 540, aided by 257 electronic business machines and 20 photoelectric addressing machines, can handle all of their correspondence, and print 377,900,400 address labels a year besides with a barest minimum of error. Last week our circulation people in New York celebrated the 2,000,000 domestic milestone by inviting a hot jazz combo to the TIME & LIFE Building lobby for a midday jam session. At 540, many expected those electronic units to signal the event by lighting up like...
...Egypt is a book of ideas by a man of action. Author Jean Bloch-Michel, 43, was a French soldier in World War II and a resistance fighter. But in this book, war is simply used as a dark backdrop for the drama of a family, stripped to its barest elements-man, woman, boy, girl. Their problems are ordinary, but there is no chance for the ordinary relief from them-the distractions and consolations of society. Pierre and Yvonne feel isolated even from each other. The children become alien to them, withdraw into themselves...
...black hole of a school room, jampacked with 35 surly inmates, Teacher Ford spends all his energies in the fight to keep the barest sort of order. He humors, scolds, tries to entice interest. No luck. When he dares to discipline, one young hoodlum asks: "You ever try to fight 35 guys at one time, Teach...
Fred arranged to rent the site from the rancher who owned it (with a verbal agreement to give him 15% of any commercial ore mined), and began to dig for buried treasure. He had only the barest knowledge of mining practices, and for three years he worked alone, hacking away with a pick and a crude handdrill. Many Saturdays Martha Schwartzwalder swept the school floors and washed blackboards so her husband could work on his mine. It was a grinding, grueling job. On the last four unblazed miles to the minesite, everything had to be carried by hand. Twice...