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This week's continuous cold, inconvenient downpour depressed everyone in town except Cambridge's overjoyed umbrella salesman...
...troubles of James McShane have made news before. In 1954, as a New York police detective, he was temporarily demoted for getting his picture in the papers holding an umbrella over the head of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano (McShane was off duty at the time and Marciano was an old pal). McShane also had the misfortune, as chief marshal, of being assigned to bring the late spy Robert Soblen back to the U.S. from Israel; as the plane approached London, Soblen took advantage of McShane's momentary absence to stab himself (TIME, July...
Last year Watson missed by over 30 when an unusually large number of students on leave returned to avoid the draft. With the increase in call-ups following Berlin, he said, students flocked back to "get under the college umbrella...
...simple shape. The Wells Fargo people love it; the first manager there treated it better than his wife." A unique marriage of roundness to function is the Pan American World Air ways terminal building at New York's Idlewild airport. A roundhouse for the jet age, its giant umbrella roof can shelter eight airliners at once as they nuzzle up to take on passengers. It successfully does away with the greatest inconvenience of modern air travel: the wearisome warrens of corridors that stretch seemingly for miles out into the windy tundra. Other outstanding round commercial buildings: Henri Jova...
Locked Doors. One way to achieve this would be to let city banks spread out, through branching and mergers. In California, where banks are free to branch all over the state, the Bank of America has spread an umbrella of more than 700 branches, built its asset base up to $12.7 billion to make itself the largest bank in the nation (though it makes fewer loans to business than the Chase). But in New York, state laws long kept the big metropolitan banks cooped up within the five boroughs of New York City, forcing them to look on helplessly...