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...Sandwich. Today the lights are not so hot, but neither is the outlook for TV cooks. Last week Boston, hub of New England cookery, could boast only two half-hour cooking spots a week. Chicago had only two TV cooks. San Francisco, whose cooking ranks with the best in the U.S., had none. The trend was the same in other parts of the country...
...Manhattan is still the biggest fashion center of all, and Seventh Avenue (from 34th Street to 40th Street) is its hub. There 8,500 women's-apparel manufacturers do 67.3% of the business-and they are a harried lot. Piracy is a stock in trade, and fashion rumors (both true and false) are the currency. Are tunics in? Will Dacron last? Is the two-piece bathing suit coming back? Gulping pastrami sandwiches and dodging careering handcarts packed with their rivals' dresses, Seventh Avenue's denizens must decide. Their decisions are based on nothing more than the gossamer...
Professor Winans heard that the circular take-off had been demonstrated as a stunt by Jean Roche in 1938. In 1950 Winans got from the Sanders Aviation Co. of Riverdale, Md. the special equipment (a hub, spindle and release gear) that Roche used, but his attempts at that time to take off in a circle were not a success...
...with his new light airplane, an Ercoupe. At first he wanted to use frozen Lake Mendota, near Madison, for his circular runway, but the city council said no. Last fortnight he set up his apparatus on the ice of Lake Kegonsa, a safe distance from Madison. The spindle and hub were attached to a steel barrel frozen into the ice and guyed solidly. A double strand of woven nylon, 400 ft. long, led to a quick-release fixture under a wing of the airplane...
Since the end of World War II, harassed college and university presidents have been continuously sounding the alarm. "No matter where we start," said Yale's Whitney Griswold, "every spoke of the wheel leads to the hub: the need for new capital." Nearly half the nation's private colleges are running in the red. The Commission on Financing Higher Education announced in 1952 that U.S. campuses will need at least $3,570,000,000 before 1960 for plant construction alone, and the American Council on Education reported that it will take $5,500,000,000 merely to house...