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...When you get older, you get more ambitious," bubbled evergreen Schmalz King Rudolph Friml, who at 81 still takes a daily dip in the chilly Pacific, follows it up with five minutes of handstands and six hours at the piano. Convinced that "everyone is tired of unmelodious music," Friml hopes that his first new operetta since 1934, a "real Frenchie" confection called Rendezvous in Paris, will tinkle onto Broadway during the coming season...
...magazine's spoof of advertising in its July Mademoiselle parody. Mannequins in death throes are advertising "clothes to be caught dead in"; others wear velvet straps, clam boots and pigeons pinned to the hems in order to deal with "problem knees"; and still others, struck by the "collectors rage," dip into bushels of mice and ensnare themselves in scotch tape and telephone wires...
Profound Changes. The dip is due to some profound changes in the U.S. housing market. Conventional mortgage credit rates recently dropped from an average 6.3% to 6%, but for the first time since World War II, a credit loosening has not triggered a new building-buying spurt. Most economists take this as a sign that the nation has pretty well built itself out of the long postwar shortage of homes. In the 1950s, family formations averaged only 830,000 per year, but builders put up houses at an annual rate of 1,200,000 to 1,600,000. Now, because...
...letter warned the givers not to dip into local treasuries for the contributions; it also stressed that the donations were to be strictly "voluntary." And it concluded meaningfully: "Please be certain to forward the list of names of persons making the contributions...
...Patterson, 61, United's president, the deal had more positive appeal. Capital's routes, running chiefly in the Southeast with extensions to the Midwest, neatly complement United's transcontinental and West Coast runs. Because of the nature of its runs, United has traditionally suffered a dip in revenue and equipment use during the winter months; hereafter it will be able to take up that slack by toting some of the Florida-bound Midwesterners whom Capital ferried by droves in the winter...