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Thirty million other Britons, straining to shake off the psychological soot of war, were set for a whopping vacation binge. Brighton, finally rid of barbed wire and pillboxes, was triumphantly ready for the Easter trade. Yachts and motorboats, many of them veterans of Dunkirk, were fought over by sea-hungry landlubbers. Butlin's popular seaside camps, the workingman's country clubs, had more customers than they could handle. While most people wanted to get out of the city, some provincials wanted to get into it: Thomas Cook & Son offered an eight-guinea ($34) junket to London, complete with...
...behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow. And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead...
...Never Know Us. In another week or so Editor Ingersoll plans to unveil a PM drastically restyled typographically, with less foreign and more local news. Along with the shake-up will come an advertising campaign to boost circulation (now 145,000, the lowest of Manhattan's nine dailies). Theme: it's a new PM, not the newspaper you think it is. Says Ingersoll: "If you're always crusading, you get to be a bore...
...from cigar-peddling profits, to buy the Columbia Broadcasting System. The date: 1928. Since then, "Wild Bill" has personally directed his lusty, incredibly wealthy network, kept it staffed with an unusual collection of young men. When he returned to his desk after 24 months overseas, Bill Paley decided to shake up his first team. Last week, after four months of line-up juggling, he had a gang as open-eyed as himself...
...Dickens could not shake off the specter of death, though he fought it to the very brink of the grave. He insisted on a secret burial without mourning clothes-"No scarf, cloak, black bow, long hatband or any other revolting absurdity." But he was powerless to stem the flood of mourners who thronged Westminster Abbey to view his open grave...