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...Macy & Co. will open its largest branch on Aug. 22, a two-story building with 300,000 sq. ft. of selling space. Nine one-story buildings, housing no stores from Buster Brown Shoes to Woolworth's, will open in September. Underground will run an air-conditioned concourse. Outside there will be parking space for 17,000 cars. Total cost: more than $50 million...
...Storm Buster. Cook, 34, learned to fly at 14 and soloed at 15. Last year, while dusting crops in the Nebraska panhandle, he made a sideline of busting hailstorms. Whenever an unusually black and mean-looking thunderhead drifted toward the sugar-beet fields of the North Platte Valley, Cook would fly into it, seeding its turbulent heart with silver-iodide particles. This maneuver provided the cloud with plenty of nuclei for ice to form on, so the hailstones did not grow big enough to fall and cut up the tender beet leaves...
...that British Frogman "Buster" Crabb a strange revenant of that Stephen Crabbe of the 13th century who detected the invisible invasion ship of the piratical Eustace the Monk? He was the only one in England able to see the phantom ship, boarded it, and his companions saw him in the air above the waters, swinging his axe which slew Eustace, until he was torn to bits by demons allied with the traitorous Eustace...
...Actor Kerr (who played the schoolboy falsely accused of homosexuality in Broadway's Tea and Sympathy) go gollygoshing through the love scenes in his second screen role, the audience may reasonably suspect that the French girl has simply been trying, in a tactful way, to say no thanks, buster...
Furor at Home. Last week the fate of Frogman Lionel ("Buster") Crabb, wartime hero in the Royal Navy, was giving Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden one of the most awkward times of his political career. In the House of Commons, Sir Anthony tried to dismiss the whole matter: "It would not be in the public interest to disclose the circumstances in which Commander Crabb is presumed to have met his death." But then he added mysteriously: "I think it necessary, in the special circumstances of this case, to make it clear that what was done was done without the authority...