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...that Ed Sullivan booked the Beatles, O'Brian praised the act. But after the air waves filled with Beatle imitators, he called a halt. "If this vast musical wasteland, this sump, continues," he wrote in his column, "it inevitably will encourage young people to forget neatness, ignore barbers, bypass cleanliness and turn into a nation of slobs...
...missing nerves controlled the sweat glands; it will feel warmer than his right hand because blood vessels will be dilated. The main axillary artery blockage cannot be cleared up by drugs, and if Ford's cramps return next year, about the only thing left will be surgery to bypass the blocked artery with a piece of his own vein or a Dacron tube. But by week's end Dr. Cooley was a relieved optimist: "Now I know how the surgeon felt who operated on Caruso's vocal cords...
Such attitudes could produce two kinds of housewives. The Radcliffe student may bypass the responsibility of running a home. She will serve frozen dinners not as a substitute excused by the demands of her career but as a positive good liberating her from the demands of her home. Her career may well force her to spend less time on household chores--if so, she must avoid considering the housewife's role as a collection of trivia...
...third market's steadiest customers are still institutions and stockbrokers who are not members of an exchange. Because institutions usually buy and sell large blocks of stock, they use the third market to bypass the exchanges and thus move the big blocks without upsetting the market price. They also like the bargain rates. Most third market firms keep on hand an inventory of widely traded stocks (Weeden's inventory of 210 listed stocks amounts to about $12 million), which they offer to customers at a flat price based on the exchanges' last quotation plus a small fraction...
...lure that caused American art sellers to bypass Parke-Bernet increasingly and go across the ocean is Sotheby's lower commission-only 10% on art and antiques and 15% on books and manuscripts-compared with P-B's 15% to 22% , made necessary by higher U.S. costs. They were tempted even more by the higher bids generated by the business acumen and showmanship of Sotheby Chairman Peter Cecil Wilson, 51, known in the auction world as "The Fastest Gavel in the West...