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...Europe in March. By midsummer, both Lend-Lease and UNRRA exports had all but stopped. The bulk of Russia's purchases had been made in the free American market;* in return, the U.S. had got such needed imports as manganese and chrome, such luxuries as sables and Persian lamb...
...credit was not all Carter's. He shared it with Broadway's board chairman, canny James Lamb. It was Lamb who had chosen the Crenshaw's location-a 35-acre tract in a suburban area which had no department stores, although there were 567,000 residents within 20 minutes' drive of the site. (The Prudential Life Insurance Co. plans to build 9,000 apartment and duplex units nearby.) That was reason enough to build a shopping area with a new Broadway store as its center...
Making the Deal. While completing his project, Lamb drove some shrewd real estate bargains. Ten stores-among them branches of F. W. Woolworth, Edison Brothers Shoe Shops and Owl Drug Co.-subleased some of his spare land at $2,000 a front foot. Lamb was not afraid of the competition as long as it helped to pay the cost of his store...
Rebecca West is a novelist of note ( The Thinking Reed), a distinguished literary critic (The Strange Necessity). But, above all, as she proved in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), she is one of the greatest of living journalists...
Second honors went to four Mastodons, two Deacons, and single players from Lowell, Dudley, Winthrop, Leverett and the Yard. Roger Wales of Lowell holds the fullback slot, Tom Lamb and Ray Rogers of Kirkland are at halves, and Dave Bishop of Dudley fills the quarterback position. In the line it's end Harry Guild, tackles Bob Fisher and Dave Thomas, and center Fred England of Eliot, aided by end Ethan Bisbee of the Puritans, with Yardling Tony Ripley and Dick Neville of Leverett in guard positions...