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...twist instructions, and such articles as "Are Kissing Dates Dangerous?" Bombay is headquarters for the nation's movie industry, which turns out some 300 feature-length films a year. A recent and elaborate movie wedding in Bombay drew 10,000 guests, but none of them were considered top-drawer socially. Bombay's society doyens still tend to associate movies with dancing girls and prostitutes, and the movie stars keep much to themselves in their golden ghettos along Juhu Beach, Bandra and Khar...
...simpler times, business records consisted of a bill sent and a payment received. Nowadays, most big corporations are half buried under an avalanche of paper, and expand their records at the average rate of an additional file drawer each year for every employee. A home office, top-heavy with accounting-department records, may be cluttered with 35,000 file drawers that cost $50 a year apiece to maintain. To cut down this paper proliferation, a new kind of specialist - the corporate archivist-has turned up. Largest of these archivists is Manhattan's Leahy Archives, which maintains five storage centers...
...meeting of the Investment Bankers Association, President David J. Harris predicted a high-level economy next year and plenty of business for securities underwriters. In their annual forecast, economists of the giant Prudential Insurance Co. looked for "a continued high level of consumer and business confidence." And many top-drawer economists at a New York meeting of the National Association of Business Economists said that they were inclined .to boost their forecasts of 1964 business activity...
JENNIE fictionally disinters the early life and hard times of the late Laurette Taylor on the tank-town circuit and mopes over her domestic ordeals with an alcoholic impresario of a husband. Mary Martin is in top form, but she is the only thing that is in this bottom-drawer musical...
...TIME'S excellent portrait of Lord Home clearly indicated that, far from having scraped the bottom of the barrel, Britain's Tories have reached into the top of the top drawer for a leader who seems to be a sparkling blend of Benjamin Disraeli and Adlai Stevenson...