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...After a brief dip in the pool ("I spend all my time keeping it clean and I'm seldom in it"), Jack settles down with a Jack Daniel's softened by water. "Do you know that right now, tonight, there is not one single written word, and now-WHAT TIME is IT? We're in panic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Late-Night Affair | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...general enthusiasm, many shrewd traders are skeptical of the current market level, feel the market is due for a retrenchment. The experts argue that prices are already so high that they discount both a business upturn and any acceleration the Mideast crisis might bring. "Korea brought a quick dip and then a quick recovery," said Ralph A. Rotnem, partner of Harris, Upham & Co. "But today the market is more vulnerable; people are paying twice as much for earnings now as in 1950." Bears point out that the Dow-Jones industrials in mid-1950 sold at eight times earnings; during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: WALL STREET | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...leaving it. For Mexico he promised only a smooth bossing of the current combination of state and private enterprise. If he does as well as Incumbent Ruiz Cortines (who has seen the gross national product rise 40% and so far has ridden out the U.S. recession with scarcely a dip), Mexicans will be satisfied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Expected Landslide | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

Abruptly, as if by some magical cue from the conductor, the 1,695 hypnotized customers in the audience begin to slam their hands together in rhythm to the march. The music wells, and the actors turn, dip, twist and prance. The applause pounds on in martial time as, a-tatatatat, a-tatatatat, the music pours up from the pit and gilds the hall with shimmering sheets of brass. At last the house lights come on, and the customers shoulder their way to the door, hands burning and hearts still tingling with a rediscovery of a bygone Fourth of July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pied Piper of Broadway | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...York Journal-American. At 44, she is a handsome woman with flashing brown eyes, makes the most of her charm and social position in covering her financial beat. At a dinner party last July, she heard businessmen moaning about cutbacks in reinvestment plans and the chances of an ensuing dip in the economy, sat down the next afternoon in her grab-bag office at the Post and pounded out one of the first stories predicting the onset of the recession. Other columns come from her own frustrations. When her vacuum cleaner, television set and iron all broke down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Housewife's View | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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