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When Red Mike gets excited, the veins invariably stand out on his forehead. Last week his face looked like a relief map of the Balkans. What brought on his near-apoplexy was a proposal by New York's Board of Transportation to sell back to Consolidated Edison, a private utility, three power plants which the city had bought in 1940. Explained the board: the power plants, which serve municipal subways, need such costly repairs that the city could save money by buying power from the utility...
...Victor improvements (flat disc record, greater fidelity) on Thomas Edison's invention financed archeological jaunts to Easter Island, Guatemala, a sounding of the Puerto Rico Deep in a $1,500,000 yacht, and a $1,000,000 University of Pennsylvania medical research foundation...
More for Less. Edison General Electric Appliance Co. Inc., subsidiary of General Electric Co., had good news for house wives, bad news for competitors. It will sell its dishwashers for 30% below 1942 prices. Reason: washers were expensively made by hand in 1942, are now being mass-produced. The price...
Appointments, by Houses, are: Standish, Buel S. Smith '49, and Richard Wallach '49; Gore, John B. Jones, Jr. '49, and Lawrence F. O'Donnell '49; George Smith, Bernard A. Edison '49; James Smith, M. Conant Webb '49; Bryan, L. Lawrence Klepper '49, and Alan E. Heimert '49; Adams, Cyril H. Wyche, Jr. '49; Lowell, Murray I. Leibmann '49; Dudley, Edward P. Morrlssey...
Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...