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...biggest bulk west of Chicago. Where other newspapers send one reporter after a local story, the Times may send a squad, then run everything they write. This produces coverage so exhaustive that the editor of a rival daily once remarked that the Times was "put together with a shovel." Enduringly conservative in its policies, stubbornly sedate in a city that invented Hollywood, the Times has long gazed contentedly over its sprawling domain. The notion of its getting nervous about any sort of competition seemed highly improbable...
...Using radical, shovel-shaped oar blades, the Oxford crew trounced Cambridge on the Thames by 1¼ lengths in their 106th race, despite the rooting of former Cambridge Coxswain Antony Armstrong-Jones and his fiancée, Princess Margaret...
...sales to drop 25% in St. Louis, 31% in Boston. Across the nation the drop was 17% below the 1959 level. A blizzard closed most businesses in Atlanta last week, forced many department stores to postpone sales. Sighed one auto dealer: "A man has to be pretty desperate to shovel his way into a dealer's showroom." Another factor: Easter will fall three weeks later this year than in 1959, postponing much retail buying. Sears, Roebuck President Charles Kellstadt said Sears is having an unimpressive first quarter, but he still expects sales in 1960 to be as good...
...power shovel advertised for one-ton capacity handles one ton of dirt; a European shovel may be cheaper, but the rating includes the weight of the shovel and it handles only four-fifths of a ton. The Commerce Department's Expert Emil Schnellbacher deplores the "great to do about ours costing more. They get more. In order to get across the idea that they are getting more for their money, we ought to go in more for the hard sell." Those who sell hard are doing fine despite price difference. American Chemical Paint Co. brings its 35 foreign distributors...
...curtain and goes to bury it in the fresh foundation of a new gazebo (summerhouse), he discovers that the hole has been filled in by his friendly contractor (John McGiver). At that very moment, in fact, the contractor knocks on his door, then casually walks off with the essential shovel. Moments later a real estate agent appears with somebody who wants to look at the house. Then the phone rings. And even after the poor slaphappy slayer manages to bury the evidence, he has an unpleasant surprise in store: the man he killed was not the blackmailer, who has been...