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...pitches that Keyte unleased on the day (a total right out of the Larry Flynt House of Torture), 43 came in the Barnum and Bailey bottom of the seventh...
Ming vases? Antiques? Gold? Cattle? All can tumble out of favor and decline in price. So where is the perplexed American investor to park his extra cash and protect its value? Certainly not in a savings account. Had Phineas T. Barnum lived today, his famous dictum might well have been: There's a saver born every minute. In the inflationary 1970s, savers are suckers who stand to lose. If inflation should continue at February's 15.4% rate, every dollar put into a bank at 5¼% interest will become 91.4? in real money a year from...
...want too much too fast. "Everybody is being drained, and there is a waste of talent," says Ed Montanus, president of MGM television (How the West Was Won, CHiPs). "Some of the really good writers and producers are becoming disillusioned and moving out. We're working in a Barnum & Bailey atmosphere, and the guy with the strongest stomach is going...
...answer to the first question being yes, the answer to the next must be maybe (or Barnum was right). To the last, it is no; the services asked from Rocky's composer are beyond the call of duty. Just why any young writer should be so cynical in constructing a love story the first time out is hard to fathom. Barra Grant has the dancer (played by Anne Ditchburn of the National Ballet of Canada) move in down the hall from the columnist (Paul Sorvino). There are a number of chance encounters in which she gradually warms...
DIED. W. Garfield Weston, 80, Canadian "Barnum of Bread" who parlayed a small family business, George Weston, Ltd., into the world's largest bakery and one of the world's biggest international grocery chains; in Toronto...