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...BETTER AND FOR WORSE by Myrna Blyth Putnam; 304 pages...
...have been rough on women who grew up in the '50s. Take the heroine of Myrna Blyth's fine new novel...
...Blyth is a witty, often hilarious writer, and few have written more tellingly about the avian world of women's magazines. But For Better and for Worse is only half comic. The other half is a sharp, unblinking look at the ways of men and women, shorn of doctrinaire feminism...
...enterprising young business people, the competitive pace and relative freedom from governmental and union restrictions are a major lure. Daniele Bodini, 32, the fast-moving, fast-thinking son of a Milanese stockbroker, has ascended in five years from a trainee at the elite investment firm of Blyth Eastman Dillon to owner of a multimillion-dollar real estate investment company. Says he: "I believe in meritocracy. Any place where you can be fired in 20 minutes is a great place." Adds Swiss-born Pierre Honegger, 34, a former journalist who three years ago bought a foreign-car dealership in Princeton...
...Purchase. Actually, business was starting to rebound even before July. In June sales were 16% above year-ago levels, and July's heat drove even more buyers into appliance stores. "It's an impulse item," explains Nicholas F. Tralongo, an appliance-industry analyst at Manhattan's Blyth Eastman Dillon & Co. "You have a bad week, and you rush...