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...lobby of Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, people stopped to stare. With no hum, no click and no whir, a machine that looked like a cross between a radio and a teletype was rolling out a pony-size newspaper page. Under the headline MICHAEL I ABDICATES, it printed a picture of Michael and Princess Anne (see FOREIGN NEWS). The dinky paper was the maiden issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer's facsimile edition...
Fascinating Future. While Vishinsky spoke, the "administrative" machinery beyond the Assembly hall droned on, too. That machinery was housed between weirdly impermanent walls; here & there, gaping holes revealed innards of makeshift wirings and scaffolds; the air was scented with ink, and cafeteria whiffs carried the hypnotically even whir of typewriters and Mimeographing machines...
...Rose's nightclub success only made his pinwheel imagination whir faster. Why not stage a circus in a Broadway theater? Billy hired Hecht and MacArthur to write the show, Rodgers & Hart to do the songs, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra to play them. Jimmy Durante as the star, and Broadway's biggest showcase, the Hippodrome, to house the spectacle. He called it Jumbo and induced Millionaire John Hay Whitney to back it with a down payment of $200,000. Cracked Rose: "This will either break Jock Whitney or make...
...Wheels Whir. In Manhattan, Dr. J. A. Hutcheson, associate director of Westinghouse Research Laboratories, pondered the question that fascinates power engineers. "We can get power out of uranium," said Dr. Hutcheson, "but we don't know how to reduce it to usable, practical form...
...wheels of peacetime industry began to whir. Now, the millions of people who had been displaced by the needs of war would have to settle down again. Unemployment was more than a fear, or an overworked word out of the dim '30s; it was a fact. By Christmas, some estimated, there might be 5,000,000 out of jobs...