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...ways in which they can do it. At the Emporium, San Francisco's largest department store, salesclerks have standing orders to encourage each customer who presents cash -which seems to lower one's status in many big stores-to open a charge account. To show how painless borrowing can be, a Los Angeles finance company runs a TV commercial of a man speaking into a pay telephone: "I wanted to ask, could I borrow" At that point, money pours out of the phone, filling the booth...
...Lopez has taught them that weak hitters should be choosy swingers-and so they lead the league in walks. The Sox are also opportunists: 39 of their 75 victories have been decided by two runs or less. "We steal a run, we cheat a run, we beg or borrow a run," says Lopez...
Once, Negroes controlled Harlem's numbers racket. But, so the story goes, one Harlem policy banker was hit hard during the 1930s and went to Racketeer Dutch Schultz to borrow $5,000. So quickly did he pay it back that Schultz became interested, and before long the big-time mobsters moved in. Now Negroes complain that Italian and Jewish racketeers, protected by the police, control the game, and a Black Nationalist has drawn cheers by calling for "black control of the numbers...
...Killers, nominally based on a vigorous short story by Ernest Hemingway, seems to borrow most of its inspiration from the Marquís de Sade. In 1946, the Hemingway story triggered a crisp crime thriller starring Burt Lancaster as the willing victim gunned down by hired assassins. The latest version, with John Cassavetes, was designed as a full-length feature for television, then was bucked along to theater exhibitors when NBC decided that its burly blend of sex and brutality might loom rather large on the home screen...
Many Happy Returns. The prime reason for the rise is that U.S. businessmen and consumers are clamoring to borrow more. Outstanding loans of U.S. commercial banks jumped from $150 billion to $157 billion in this year's first five months, and they are still climbing sharply. Much of the gain came in the kind of loans that bankers like most of all-consumer installment loans, which give them interest yields of 12% or more. The banks' consumer installment credit has increased by 13% in the past year, to $22 billion. At the same time, the amount of real...