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...through standardized methods of operation, efficient management, scientific location, and the advantages gained through quantitative buying, the chains have taken almost half the total sales volume away from the independents. But the necessity for standardization in the chain store will prevent it from ever eliminating the small merchant with his personal contacts with the customers...
...best work, to be sure, but it is head and shoulders above anything else you are going to find at your local book merchant's until Orwell' executors publish a new collection of his essays...
Died. Homer Lenoir Ferguson,* 80, dean of American shipbuilders, president (1915-46) of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; of a heart attack; in Warwick, Va. As boss of the nation's oldest and largest builder of merchant and naval vessels, Annapolis-trained Engineer Ferguson directed its round-the-clock construction frenzy in two world wars, built 15 of the Navy's big aircraft carriers (Hornet, Midway...
...months later, King Leopold, a lonely widower,* secretly married Marie Liliane Baels, the comely daughter of a Flemish shrimp merchant who had made good in politics. The marriage was morganatic; instead of becoming Queen, Liliane took the title of Princess de Réthy, and renounced all rights of succession. But the news, when the German radio leaked it, shocked Belgians and brought this reproach from a Brussels newspaper: "Sire! We thought you had your face turned towards us in our misery; instead, you had it hidden on the shoulder of a woman...
...freshman managership was won by Noble Smith '56 of Marblehead, while Bruce M. Merchant '56 of Wanwatosa, Wis., and Herman K. Bleibtrue '56 of Hinsdale, III., were chosen assistant freshman managers...