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...CHARLES BROOK...
...given him time to mull, skimmed through magazines and newspapers. His prize cliché: the phrase claiming world supremacy. In Tide last week, he listed 52. Among them: "World's most widely used sound-conditioning materials" (Celotex); "World's most personal fountain pen" (Ester-brook); "World's greatest show of guaranteed values for home" (Fruit of the Loom); "World's only vacuum cleaner that cleans four ways at once" (Lewyt); "World's most advanced refining developments" (Mobilgas); "World's largest cordage laboratory" (Plymouth); "World's largest-selling denture cleaner" (Poli-dent); "World...
...wide work spaces, movable acoustical partitions, and horizontal and vertical conveyer belts for interoffice mail. There will be escalators, patios, glass walls, a cafeteria cantilevered over a reflecting pool (ice-skating rink in winter), a 400-seat theater, bowling alleys, an employees' store, tennis courts and a babbling brook. Executives will have a penthouse-topped wing, connected with the main building by a three-story, glass-enclosed bridge...
...impressive three under par at the 13th, he hit his tee shot short. "I didn't come here to play it safe," he announced to the gallery, and he gambled on a long, bold wood to the pin. He lost. His ball trickled into the brook that guards the green. He holed out two over...
Nature has seldom devised a more demanding steeplechase than the Grand National at England's Aintree with its 4½-mile course and 30 jumps over brush, fence, rail and water, including famed, treacherous Becher's Brook. Last week a crowd of 250,000, including a big contingent of Irishmen and a flock of hopeful holders of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes tickets, turned out to watch the 108th running of the Grand National and shudder at the spills. The footing was soggy and spills came early: three horses went down at the first jump, two at the second. Only...