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Somewhere, when I was young, I got the idea that the average American couple had sex twice a week, and I've carried this figure in my head for more than 30 years, as a benchmark, like the .300 batting average or the idea of three square meals a day. There have been times when any sex at all was a beautiful faraway ideal, like reincarnation, and there have been other periods when twice a day or hourly seemed pretty normal. But twice weekly was the norm, I thought, so it's a surprise to learn that according...
...surged 50 points in the first 15 minutes of trading. But then profit-takers moved in, leaving the Dow at 3889.95, a gain of 14.80 points. The S&P 500 rose 2.32 to 467.79. NASDAQ stocks inched up 0.89 to 767.89. Bond prices surged, as the yield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury fell to 7.85%. The price of gold fell a dollar to $386.95 in London trading...
...Board stocks fell on the day, while more than 900 advanced. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped1.68 points to 3875.15. The S&P 500 fell less than half a point to 465.47. NASDAQ stocks rose 1.43 to 767.00. Bond prices also dropped, as the yield on the Treasury's benchmark 30-year issue rose to 7.9%. The price of gold rose 25 cents to $387.90 in London trading...
...Average jumped 55.51 points to 3876.83. The S&P 500 rose nearly seven points to 465.79. NASDAQ shares rose 8.76 to 765.751. Bond prices rallied on rumors that the Feds were inclined -- at least for the time being -- to hold back on further interest rate hikes. The yield on benchmark 30-year Treasury issue fell to 7.87%. The price of gold fell dramatically, by $3.10 to $387.60 in New York trading...
Gabler, author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, has written a benchmark biography that fuses meticulous research with a deft grasp of the cultural nuances of an era when virtually everyone who mattered paid homage to Winchell at his table at Manhattan's celebrity hangout, the Stork Club. Gabler captures everything except the essence of Winchell's breathless dot-dot-dot tabloid style. Never does the author parse an entire column or broadcast to make Winchell accessible to a generation that only dimly recalls him as the narrator of the 1960s TV series The Untouchables...