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Hogarth had an explanation of his own. In one of the neatest esthetic credos in English, he described what he was trying for: "variety without confusion, simplicity without nakedness, richness without tawdriness, distinctness without hardness, quantity without excess...
...store had placed an order for 50,000 pens (retail value: $625,000). At week's end, 30,000 pens (including 12,000 mail orders) had been sold. By selling the first ball-bearing pen in the U.S., it looked as if Gimbel's had pulled the neatest merchandising trick of the season...
Long Island's Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. performed the neatest reconversion trick of the week. It went into production of a brand-new commercial product: an aluminum canoe. Designed by President Leroy Grumman, who turned out the Navy's Wildcat and Hellcat fighter planes, the canoe weighs one-half to two-thirds as much as wooden canoes. A 13-footer weighs only 38 pounds, yet the thin skin is tough enough to deflect anything up to a bullet. When capsized, the canoe automatically rights itself in the water with the help of air tanks...
...wartime totals, would be content for long with 15%. But there was no law against hoping; Administration analysts hoped that by spring U.S. production-and profits-would be big enough to give a Boost to wages without a lift of prices. If done, it would be the neatest economic trick of the millennium...
...with grenades and ammunition belts, demanded my pass. I had none, but fished out my typewritten permit to eat at the British officers' mess in Trieste. The Yugoslav examined it carefully for about 30 seconds, broke into a black-toothed grin, said the equivalent of okay, snapped the neatest salute I have ever seen, and waved...