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...foreign earnings. Other industries benefiting from price boosts were aluminum, copper and lead producers, along with electric utilities. Strong demand for all product lines also boosted profits of electrical equipment makers such as General Electric and RCA. Others scoring substantial second-quarter gains were producers of building materials, apparel and forest products; even the long buffeted airline industry took off (TIME...
...Chorus Line. His dancing, however, is always fluent, and the actual chorus line, under Margo Sappington's supple control, both creates and burlesques a raft of dance routines. Mingling sordid facts with lovely tunes, Pal Joey is a modern Beggar 's Opera richly adorned in the apparel of a prince's ransom...
...grim year of 1974, when real G.N.P. actually shrank by 1.2% and many companies were driven toward bankruptcy. Now corporate earnings are once again on the rise. Official unemployment -which never got much above 2% of the work force-and inflation have abated. The Japanese are responding by buying apparel, leisure equipment, vacations and houses...
Failing Fortunes. That saga is the true story of Genesco Inc., the footwear, apparel and retail giant that W. Maxey Jarman built in Nashville, Tenn. In 1969 Jarman, then 65, turned over the chairmanship to his brash, M.I.T.-educated son Franklin, but retained a firm grip on the corporate purse strings by remaining head of the finance committee. To many, Frank Jarman's ascendancy amounted to rank nepotism-a suspicion that seemed justified when, in 1972, Genesco sales began a steady decline. In 1973 Genesco reported a $52.9 million loss, the first in its history; two years later there...
...salvation to Britons of all classes. Still indefatigable at his 73rd birthday last month, Wesley also insists on "doing good of every possible sort" for the needy. He requires a puritanical code of his flock: no swearing, Sabbath work, buying or selling liquor, brawling, or wearing of rich apparel...