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There were preliminary rumblings that a Ruml plan for Macy's was already in the works. Those who have watched Macy's recent expansion (TIME, July 16) had a new rumor to buzz about. The rumor: Macy's is dickering to buy Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Said Ruml waggishly: "We've been denying that report for two years. But you can look awfully silly if you print a denial and then two weeks later the contrary is announced...
...narrow beam of light. By turning the beam from side to side, the blind man can feel his way. When the beam hits a lamppost, a fence or any such obstacle, its light reflects back to a lens and is focused on a photoelectric cell. A gentle buzz in an earphone warns him that the obstacle is near. The blind man can tell its direction by pointing his box. He can learn to tell how far away it is by the length of the buzz...
Anybody could understand Main Street. Novelist Lewis' style might be rasping and insistent, but it was no more complicated than a buzz saw. Main Street's narrative neatness made it as readable as a Saturday Evening Post story. And Author Lewis had a phonographic knack for recording the hodgepodge patter of U.S. provincial speech that at best was inspired, at worst vivid vaudeville. As a storm of controversy whipped up the sales, Main Street ran through eleven printings in less than four months...
...London restaurants last week the buzz of war talk had been replaced by: "I say, it is a frightful mess-Lend-Lease. ... If Roosevelt hadn't died. . . . May as well face it ... they want to lend, and they bloody well won't buy. . . . I'm ready to go but I can't get materials...
...have got to a stage where a country could win a war despite its size. It could win, however small it was, provided it had the scientific resources and brains to obtain mastery of the new weapons. If you couple the atomic bomb with the projected missile [e.g., buzz-bombs or rocket bombs], you have something with possibilities that hardly bear contemplation...