Nothingliterally nothinghad been left untouched by 50 years of progress. New York on Jan. 1, 1900 had been innocently delighted with the snowflakes (the kind "that wear well"); but by the Christmas season of 1949, improvements had been made even in this department. Manhattan's Rockefeller Center designed its own snowflakes: they were of plastic, 19 inches in diameter, held by a pin to a 10-foot pipe.
When the wind blew, they spun. Explained a spokesman for the Center: "We hoped they'd spin, but aerodynamically I'm surprised that they do." He added: "It's not the...
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