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...thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes." -Walt Whitman...
...thought I had seen everything till I saw my copy of TIME, July 11. A cover and a large section of the Business section devoted to Beer! I am shocked, offended and ashamed...
Wrote Editor Deshais: "Some of the society women of Chicago are drinking themselves silly. 'Round the clock they go, lapping it up from high noon till they reach another high at midnight. By their own admission some of them are consuming from twelve to 20 ounces a day ... I love society and I don't like to think there are any lady lushes in society. [But] some women who lead brisk social lives can consume . . . nearly a gallon a week...
...Gold & Platinum Co., which had a cash kitty of $4,000,000 (about 50% of its net worth), two years later had enough stock to oust the management. Last year Pennroad used South American's kitty to buy another gold company with $6,000,000 more in the till, then merged the two, diversified into cement and pipelines. As a result, South American's profits on 1955's first six months' gross are almost as high as for all of 1954. Another Pennroad venture, this time with South American Gold: buying the $31 million National Department...
Ghost on My Shoulder. Pilot Bridgeman tells his story with pride but not conceit. He tells of the things he had to learn till they became second nature, e.g., reverse breathing at high altitude, when a tank forces oxygen into his lungs and he has to breathe it out. He explains how many hours he spends studying and how many sweating. Every two weeks for three months he climbed down from the B-29 into his rocket ship. Each time the flight was called off. Finally he began to toss a utilitarian Dixie container, betraying his nervousness, over the side...