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...drafty halls of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace echoed last week with the whir of a thousand mechanical monsters, infernally clever and incredibly dexterous. It was the 40th National Business Show, where the booming U.S. business-machine industry proudly exhibited its newest laborsaving, cost-cutting gizmos...
This week he stopped in Albany long enough to pick up his wife and two sons and then was off to New Castle, N.H. for the 40th annual Governors' Conference. There he chatted easily with California's Governor Earl Warren (see below), and with newsmen. They asked him whether he had read Harry Truman's western speeches. "From what I could gather from . . . headlines," the governor answered, "it did not seem like a profitable way to spend my time." Did he think he would get the nomination? He certainly did, "and after not too many ballots...
...Time after time, on the chalk board he ordered "EZY" as Holland passed the pit. On the 193rd lap, with auto racing's biggest honor his for the taking, Rookie Holland obeyed the "EZY" sign-and Oldtimer Mauri Rose (who had cracked up on the 40th lap last year) went into the lead. When a mechanic got set to signal Rose that he was ahead-by writing "P1" (Position one) on the pit-board-Moore cautioned him: "Don't let Holland...
Last week at Ormond Beach she played her 40th consecutive day of tournament golf. She sank one 45-foot putt with a breezy exclamation, "Ain't that pretty?" She also won her sixth Florida tournament in six weeks. Muttered one spectator: "Whatta woman...
Beginning this week, the proportion of maternity clothes to total sales will probably be lessened even further. Reason, Lane Bryant moved its big Manhattan store from 39th Street to a smartly remodeled building on smart Fifth Avenue (at 40th Street), and opened new departments to sell jewelry, cosmetics, nursery furniture, baby carriages, clothes for misses and girls...