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...video screen automatically displays a list of specials in each aisle she passes. Electronic alert: Cup O' Noodles on sale, two for $1; veal chops, $6.99, a dollar off the regular price. "I used to scour all the flyers for bargains," says Alpert, a lawyer from nearby Edgemont, but now the computer takes care of that. Her basket filled, she takes her place in the check-out line. But rather than browse through the National Enquirer or Redbook, she passes the time playing a trivia game on the cart's computer. "It's surprising the way they're making shopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supermarkets Grocery-Cart Wars | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...answer this because of the Buckley law" across the letter forms. At Lee High School, in New Haven, Conn., Laura Stewart, head of the guidance department, refuses to check the "I do-do not-recommend this student" on the forms. Explains Joseph Doohan, principal of Edgemont High School in Scarsdale, N.Y.: "Many teachers aren't interested in getting into the hassle that might come from honest but critical assessments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Buckley Backfire | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Last month, for example, Wolanow bought the Edgemont Manor in Los Angeles for $445,000, paying a little less than half in cash, the rest with a 5% mortgage. Upkeep runs $42,600 a year and gross income $84,000. The income would be taxable except that Sacha can deduct his depreciations, e.g., 5% yearly of the building valued at $250,000, and 20% on the furniture valued at $150,000. The total yearly depreciation adds up to $42,500, every penny of it deductible from income and all taxfree. After a few years, when the furniture is depreciated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: A Man with Friends | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...Pearl Harbor here," remarked Egbert V. Edgemont '50 yesterday, as he bolted all the windows of his ground floor Wigglesworth room in step with more official preparations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Durant Men Set To Defend Yard From Eli Tricks | 11/22/1946 | See Source »

Abbott T. Fenn of Concord and Winthrop House was elected permanent class secretary yesterday when approximately 400 Seniors went to the polls to cast votes for 14 class officers. Richard G. Pfister of Edgemont, South Dakota and Winthrop House, and George W. Heiden of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Winthrop House, were top men in the voting for Class Day Committee and Permanent Class Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fenn Elected Permanent Class Secretary As '42 Goes To Polls | 3/18/1942 | See Source »

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