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...recall a book (In Our Image) published by Oxford University Press, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 10, 1949), which was a collection of Old Testament narratives illustrated by Guy Rowe. He found the models for some of these faces in his favorite Manhattan restaurant. The tired face of the floor sweeper, for example, was his inspiration for Jephthah, the man who made the rash vow. For Adam, he used his own son Charles, and Guy himself posed before a mirror for David mourning Absalom...
Magnetic Maid. A cleaning device that attracts dust and dirt magnetically into small piles for easier sweeping has been put on the market by Damar Products, Inc. of Newark, N.J. "Magnetik Sweeper" has rubber ridges on the bottom, which create electrostatic action. Price...
Those who have ever seen a street sweeper's truck clanking around Cambridge at five in the morning know how archaic the machines are. If anyone could stay critical at that hour, there would probably be an outcry from a public used to watching their high powered servants perform at supersonic speeds. But the new speed fad hardly bothers the sweepers. They still prefer picking up the newspaper shreds of a high-charged world at the laconic pace of six miles an hour...
...Street to send the men out and keep track of their progress. There is a kind of camaraderie between the boss and the driving trio; they think he is a good boss and Coveney thinks the world of them. "If by some miracle," he said, beaming on a departing sweeper, "I should ever become chief sanitary engineer of Massachusetts, I'd take care that my boys got a really good...
...with the brushes raised on a straight away the machine can make a disjointed twenty miles an hour that looks like sixty. "But its better to drive slowly," one of the drivers said. "It takes a little longer but you pick up everything. Besides," he added, carefully shifting the sweeper into low, "it's better for the machine...