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Even the plot, which was written by Dori Schmidt, appears much less inane that those which inflict many musicals. The story deals with the antagonism between an esoteric poet, and a poet-hating female stock broker, and the somewhat hestitant romance between their children...
Marriage Revealed. Terry Moore (real name: Helen Luella Koford), 27, cinemactress (King of the Khyber Rifles); and Eugene C. McGrath, 33, Panama insurance broker; both for the second time (her first: Footballer Glenn Davis); on New Year's Day, in Las Vegas...
...President Eisenhower is the pulse of the stock market," said a Wall Street broker. "Everything is Ike, Ike, Ike." For weeks the market pulse has beaten sluggishly; trading dropped and prices edged down as a majority of Wall Streeters decided that Ike would not run again. Last week the pulse speeded up after the doctors issued their report on Ike's condition. The next day so many buy orders poured in that some specialists had trouble opening their stocks. Not until 10:18 a.m., for example, did U.S. Steel open on a huge block of 25,000 shares...
...Portland, Ore. Investment Counselors J. Henry Reiser & Co. (80,000 shares), Chicago Financier Franklin Lyons (60,000 shares), Baltimore Investment Counselor Henry Howard (50,000 shares), Louisville retired Broker Clarence K. Reynolds (50,000 shares...
...witty friends. But now those friends are ruined, bitter, broke or drunk. But Widmerpool, the earnest bore, alone seems to be making a go of it in a suddenly makeshift world. He works in a financial house that specializes in discounting bills. Widmerpool's job as a bill-broker becomes a symbol of Author Powell's thesis...