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...price-earnings ratio. From now on, says Bache's Gordon, "prices of stocks will not increase unless we can really see proof of growth in earnings." Only slightly less pessimistically, E. F. Hutton & Co. Partner Robert Stovall warns: "You don't heal a blast wound with a Band-Aid, and you don't convince people to put money back into the market right after they have sustained sizable losses...
Died. Earle Ensign Dickson, 68, longtime employee of New Jersey's Johnson & Johnson surgical supply company who, while treating his wife's finger for a kitchen knife mishap in 1920, inadvertently invented the Band-Aid, which eventually earned his firm $30 million in annual sales and Dickson a vice-presidency; after a long illness; in New Brunswick...
...Purple Band-Aid. A three-stripe sergeant, Mauldin soon had the prerogatives of a general. He cruised the front in his own Jeep-a gift from Lieut. General Mark Clark-twice as famous, and twice as welcome, as any other visitor outside of Marlene Dietrich. He liberated artist's material where he could find it: in Italy he often sketched on the backs of the Mussolini portraits that hung in most Italian homes. "I was no hero," says Mauldin. "I wasn't leading a perilous life." But he got close enough to the shooting to be superficially injured...
Sailor, Beware! In Jacksonville, police warned whoever stole Mrs. Ralph Y. Smith's 16-ft. aluminum canoe that it has a hole in the bottom of the hull patched only with a Band-Aid...
...course called "coordinates." He taught teachers to hook their index fingers together and pull. Said he: "That's the beginning of Newton's Third Law."- Using his curriculum's careful exposition of contact, field and frictional forces, teachers and pupils brought wood blocks, rubber bands, magnets, Band-Aid boxes and buttons to class, found them suddenly interesting as demonstrations of physical laws...