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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Avery Adams predicted third-quarter earnings will be 81? a share v. 47? in the second quarter. Nicholas P. Veeder, president and chairman of Granite City Steel Co., which is operating at nearly 100% of capacity, estimated third-quarter earnings at just over $1 a share for the best quarter in the last five. Said Veeder: "By the end of 1959, we expect to be up to the rated capacity of 1,584,000 tons yearly predicted for the end of our current expansion program...
Goldilocks has a professional air, from the period brightness of the Peter Larkin sets and Castillo costumes to the sound showmanship-hers all energy, his all ease -of Elaine Stritch and Don Ameche. Dancer Pat Stanley is piquant, and the best of Agnes de Mille's dances and ballets are stylish. No One'll Ever Love You is a sassy duet, The Beast in You an amusing ditty. Walter Kerrs staging is lively and firm, and here a quip and there a crack bears Jean (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) Kerr's dewy, screwy touch...
...prove the contrary. And, particularly at the second-bottle stage, Actor Poston shows an amusing gift for exuberant pantomime, as does Director Abbott for moderate pandemonium. But no play can keep from falling on its face just by having the hero continue to do so, and even at its best, even as a jolly intemperance lecture, Drink tends to pall...
Hawthorn finished with a total of 42 points. Moss, piloting a British Vanwall, scored 41 points by gaining nine Sunday. Phil Hill, of Santa Monica, Calif., finished third Sunday in another Ferrari. The title is decided by adding the points scored by drivers in their six best grand prix races of the year...
...Council referendum on NSA planned for late this week, is "the best way to discover how students really feel about membership." Beck pointed out that the 1956-57 and 1957-58 Student Councils showed enough interest in NSA to enter and place first and third, respectively, in the annual student-government project contest...