Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Town & Country has been quietly slipping ever since Editor Harry Bull resigned from the 100-year-old Hearst-owned monthly (TIME, April 28, 1947). Bull's successor, Paris-born Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, didn't make the grade. Casting around for somebody new, the top Hearst brass asked ex-Hearstling Sell whether he knew a good editor. Said Sell: "Yes, me!" It was a deal, with the understanding that Editor Sell would go on running his meat business and keeping an eye on his Blaker Advertising Agency...
Mellowing Jack Dempsey, 53, revealed that he gets Christmas and birthday greetings regularly from Gene Tunney, and that Luis Firpo (the Wild Bull of the Pampas) drops him an occasional letter...
...thought that a strong bull market was just around the corner, but some expected an "intermediate" rise. Said Chicago's Dow Theorist Justin F. Barbour: "The market pattern . . . suggests that 1949 will prove to be a 'Down' year." Then he hedged his remarks. If the market does not break decisively through its low point of last November, he said, it will be a Dow signal that there may be "an important rise." In any case, "a normal bull market is unlikely . . . until all the basic industries are confronted with . . . competitive conditions...
Wall Street Economist Nicholas Molodovsky of White, Weld & Co. finally took the bull by the horns. Quoth he: "Stock prices are still engaged in a long-term basic cyclical decline. Yet I also believe that, within a shorter segment of time, we are now at the inception of a significant intermediate rise...
...British ambassador to Belgium. "If you serve vodka to the gentleman you're trying to swindle," quipped Sir George, "he recovers his suspicions the next morning. But if you ply him with Scotch, he doesn't get up his guard again for three or four days." John Bull at his post in Mauretania was doubtless still much too young for Sir George's advanced advice...