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...Science has no center from which it grows . . . Science is merely a rim, and only from this rim does it continually grow. Man has no longer anything to do with this science, except to watch it and to write an account of the mingling of knowledge and of its growth...
...TIME bureaus which rim the Iron Curtain are, of course, a major source of news from that half of the world which is cloistered by Communist sentries. Eric Gibbs, chief of our bureau at Bonn, Germany, is now starting back after a four-week visit in New York, in which he described some of the new skills in reportage required to out such an assignment...
Federated hopes to bring the "big city" department store to smaller towns. Each Fedway store will be air-conditioned, windowless (except for show windows), carry everything from diapers to home freezers, have customer charge accounts, free delivery, parking space. Stockrooms will be built around the rim of the modernistic stores, so that clerks can give faster service to customers and refill their supplies themselves. For Federated, the stores mark two big changes. Up till now, it has expanded only by buying other stores. In its nine department stores and 16 branches, whose sales last year totaled $424 million, each store...
Long and lean, a single white spire fights its way through the trees in Hanover. New Hampshire, to tell the world that a college shivers beneath it. Visitors descending from the rim of hills need only follow this barren beacon to find the cloisters that are Dartmouth, and once there, to help them understand the uniqueness of the country's loneliest college...
Algren is depressed at what he sees in his Chicago: "Out of the Twisted Twenties flowered the promise of Chicago as a homeland and heartland of an American renaissance...Thirty years later we stand on the rim of a cultural Sahara...The giants cannot come again." And he jams a good deal of depression into this short work...