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...would it seem to find oneself in an assembly of assorted saints? Short of going to heaven, the best way to answer that question is to dip into the four lively and curious volumes of Butler's Lives of the Saints, just published in a brand-new bicentennial edition (Kenedy; $39.50). The saints are anything but a dull crowd...
...down 6% in Pittsburgh. But it will still be some time before sales are badly hurt. One of the most notable things of 1956 so far is the way Detroit merchants keep on selling in the face of heavy auto layoffs totaling 280,000 Michigan workers. While sales usually dip with the employment curves, FRB reports overall retail business in the Detroit-Cleveland area was up 5% for the year...
...Loew's Inc., which runs MGM, announced that its earnings for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 1955 will be lower than the $6,577,311 it made for the 1954 period. The dip in earnings is largely the result of two M-G-M box-office flops: The Prodigal, starring Lana Turner, which cost $3,000,000 and to date has grossed $2,200,000 in the U.S., and Jupiter's Darting, with Esther Williams, which cost $3,000,000 and has recouped only...
...major part of the current flow is the high, thin upstroke of the "R" wave; the thin downstroke is simply return to the base line. Then follows the heavy, hump-shaped "T" wave that marks the repolarization of the muscle surface; some subjects also show a short dip called "S" (not pictured here) before...
CIGARETTE SMOKING will jump 4% in 1955, reversing a two-year dip, and keep climbing in 1956, predicts the U.S. Agriculture Department. The forecast: 383 billion smokes in 1955, some 15 billion more than last year and only 11 billion short of the alltime peak...