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...August 1947, a four-star general and a Medal of Honor man, he retired from command of the U.S. Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. To be near the post that is most beloved to old soldiers, he took a job as board chairman of a Texas food-store chain. He and his wife lived comfortably but quietly, for his health was poor. He called their small shaded house in San Antonio Fiddlers Green...
...country, on farms and on the range as well as around the borders of every town and shopping center, there is a tremendous amount of building going on: new store buildings, clubhouses and public institutions, and dozens and dozens of modern schools, most of them along simple, functional lines. I remember beautiful schools, for instance, in Idaho Falls and a suburb of Billings, Mont., and others going up in towns in Ohio, Illinois and Iowa. In the commercial centers, the streets are lined with late-model cars. Everywhere I went I had a continuing impression of homes being kept...
Seat of Memory. Some of the biggest mysteries lie in man's own brain. Dr. Ralph W. Gerard of the University of Illinois College of Medicine asks: "What is memory?", and then gives himself an unsatisfactory answer. No one knows how the brain stores its information. It contains about 10 billion neurons (brain cells), but if they worked like the vacuum tubes of electronic computers, there would not be nearly enough of them to store the information in the average, well-furnished brain...
...Chain Store. No newsman himself, Thomson concentrates his energies on the business side, lets individual editors run their own show up to a point. The point: the paper's profit & loss statement. But Thomson's mechanical improvements have made it easier for editors to show profits. In Canada, he has connected most of his papers with a teletype circuit. Thus, when one has a successful feature or circulation-building idea, other papers in the chain can promptly pick it up. At first his chain-store methods set conservative Canadian publishers against him. But they changed their minds when...
Thomson, the son of a Toronto barber, learned how to read a balance sheet the hard way. He quit school in Toronto at 14, began to clerk in a fishing supply store, starting at $5 a week. Within ten years he had invested his small savings so shrewdly that he had $20,000, which he lost in a pie-in-the-sky Saskatchewan land deal. During the Depression he sold radios in northern Ontario, quickly found that in some remote Canadian towns reception was so poor that few people would buy his sets. Thomson knew how to solve that...