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...after the guns of September 1939, by reminding Churchill that they were both naval ministers during World War I. "Keep me in touch personally with anything you want me to know about," Roosevelt urges. Churchill does, first with a telephone call about a German threat to sink a U.S. merchant ship, and subsequently with an outpouring of 1,161 letters, telegrams, congratulations and miscellaneous messages (Roosevelt's answers: a slightly more laconic...
...that the end of this picture's celebration of the traditional American verities. Struggling on against the ravages of the Great Depression, the elements (a devastating tornado) and the wickedness of the unenlightened (a hypocritical banker, a crooked cotton merchant, even the Ku Klux Klan), Edna is comforted and aided by her two utterly winning children (Yankton Hatten and Gennie James), by a shrewd, gentle, black man (Danny Glover) whom she redeems from rootlessness and petty crime, and by a blind man (John Malkovich) whom she redeems from bitterness. As these archetypes of disenfranchisement assemble in her kitchen...
NONFICTION: Bloods, Wallace Terry The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944, Lucjan Dobroszycki, Editor ∙ The Death Merchant, Joseph C. Goulden ∙ Josephine Herbst, Elinor Langer ∙ The Weaker Vessel, Antonia Fraser Writers at Work, George Plimpton, Editor
When Sears does well, the ripples spread throughout the economy. As merchant to the millions, the company is the grand marshal of the American material parade. Sears sells 37% of America's replacement car batteries, 22% of its paint, 39% of its clothes dryers, almost half of its portable flush toilets. It reaches its customers not only through its more than 800 retail stores but through 2,389 catalog-sales centers in localities that range in size from Los Angeles to Arkville, N.Y. (pop. 600), and Muleshoe, Texas (pop. 4,842). The largest Sears stores are in Troy...
...found such items of acknowledged excellence, but high price, as Dunhill cigarette lighters, Rolex watches or Leica cameras. Sears does not try to lead the customer to new and esoteric, and sometimes useless, products. Says Joseph Batogowski, senior executive vice president of merchandising: "We are a mass merchant. We strive to carry not avant-garde goods, but the current state of mass America...