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...KAREN KLING Edison Junior High School Sioux Falls...
Thomas Alva Edison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Admiral Richard E. Byrd were at various times regular customers of the book shops. Franklin Roosevelt once attributed the origin of his Hyde Park library, and his interest in collecting books and historiana, to the wise tutelage of Cornhill proprietors...
...Schwarz has built its sales from a Depression low of $675,000 to $5,500,000 last year, now boasts seven branches.* Name customers have been commonplace ever since Thomas Edison strolled in to shop for a doll and lingered in fascination over a Schwarz jack-in-the-box. Caroline Kennedy's toy list for her first Christmas at the White House was filled at Schwarz. "Why are we successful?" asks Schwarz President Charles Veysey, 45, and offers an answer that doesn't explain: "F.A.O. Schwarz is a retailing phenomenon." Another Schwarz executive provides a clue: "Grandparents...
Ever since Thomas Alva Edison discovered the motion picture, men have tried to make films that exploited the full potential of this new medium. That is, they have wanted to develop a new art form which could stand by itself, without heavy borrowing from related areas. Too often they have gone little beyond the scope of the legitimate theater; they have done little more than photograph a play heightened in its vividness by close-ups, mob scenes, fast-paced cutting and all the other techniques worked out over the last fifty years. And Almost no one has created a film...
...flourish. Though the state produces 55% of Italy's steel, Milan's Falck Steel succeeds by specializing in high-grade alloys. Periodic talk of nationalization of the electric power industry fails to faze ramrod-backed Giorgio Valeric, 57, managing director of Italy's largest utility, the Edison Group. Snaps Valerio: "We've doubled output in ten years, and we're still going ahead. Politicians are conservatives. We industrialists, we are the revolutionaries...