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The week's best play came off the library shelves: U.S. Steel Hour's adaptation of Sir James Barrie's 41-year-old sentimental comedy, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. Gracie Fields worked hard for every tear as the plucky charlady who pretends she has a...
In the hierarchy of giant grocery chains, Grand Union, with 342 stores scattered over eight Eastern Seaboard states, ranks well down the list in tenth place. But in the art of lively merchandising it yields first place to no one. It was the first big supermarket chain to mechanize food...
Round the Clock. A part-time inventor, Shield used the East Paterson store to try out his patented Food-O-Mat, a block of tiered ramps that feed cans and jars to customers by gravity and save up to 40% of floor space. To solve the traffic problem inside his...
Haynes has set up an exhibit in Widener showing examples of books that have been marked up and mutilated. He pointed out the part of the exhibit where a clean copy of a book is compared with a typically messy copy from the Library's shelves.
But Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson kept selling what he could sell, and giving away the rest. In three years more than 600 million pounds were donated for welfare use (e.g., school lunches) at home and abroad, and some 300 million pounds were sold, some at reduced prices for...