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...Yooma of It. Bill stayed for an hour. He opened the cash register, took out $70 and thrust it into his pockets. He gave away a series of presents-six dozen eggs to one sick-looking customer, a liverwurst to another, 30 slices of ham to a third. He poured himself a glass of milk and drained it. Then he finally strolled out and was gone. He was arrested in only a few hours-his automobile had no plates, and while this kept anyone from jotting down his license number, it made the car as conspicuous as a Brooklyn girl...
Dead in Syracuse. Her very passion for audiences ("They tell me what to do") may have kept her so long from the spectacular success recently thrust upon her. If a play she was in closed on Broadway, Shirley was too restless to stay in town furthering her career by haunting producers' offices or being seen at smart cafes. Instead, she would hop a train, join the cast of one or another stock company. While less talented actresses might rocket overnight' to Broadway fame, Shirley was knocking them dead in Louisville or Syracuse. She was starred in the sticks...
...engines, the U.S. and Britain are running a seesaw race for the title of the "most powerful" (see chart). Last week it looked as if Britain's De Havilland Engine Co., Ltd. had jumped out ahead; it announced a new engine, the Gyron, with a thrust "greater than that of any other known jet engine." Although performance figures were kept secret, airmen guessed that the Gyron is in the 15,000-Ib.-thrust class, compared to 10,000 to 12,000 Ibs. for the current model of Pratt & Whitney's J-57, which had been rated the world...
...while all De Havilland's previous jets (e.g., the Goblin, which powers the Vampire fighter, and the Ghost, which powers the Comet and the Venom fighter), have been centrifugal types.* De Havilland said that the engine, which has low gas consumption and a low ratio of weight to thrust, is being developed first for supersonic fighter planes, later could be built for transports. Said De Havilland: the Gyron is the first of "a new generation of really large turbine-jet power units. The company is confident that it will prove to be one of the principal power units...
Almost completely routed, Gilbert reformed for a final thrust. Noting that Remington's annual report gave MacArthur's salary as $45,533 and not $100,000 as the press had estimated, Gilbert asked: "What happened to the rest of it?" That, said the general, was all there was; the rest was "newspaper talk." At meeting's end, MacArthur thanked the stockholders for coming, singled out Spokesman Gilbert for an individual citation. Said the general: "It constitutes democracy when we don't agree on everything...