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Wesker uses a slice-of-life technique to convey a slice of lifelessness. Small, dun-colored, repetitious detail is ladled out till the audience is saturated in it. There is a certain mild humor in the repetitions, whether of the family's deadness or the offstage boy friend's didactic, doctrinaire lust for life. The humor turns grim when he rejects the girl, herself now lost between two worlds, too low for a hawk and too high for a buzzard. An honest but limited method, Wesker's leads to truthful but limited effects, and to believable characters...
...mere kindergarten for growth and glamour. It also handles 95% of all Government bonds and most municipal bonds, accounts for almost all bank and insurance stocks, many corporate bonds and Canadian and foreign securities. In its ranks are found such well-known companies as Kaiser Steel, Eli Lilly, Dun & Bradstreet, Macmillan Co., Anheuser Busch, Dictaphone Corp., Weyerhaeuser Co. and TIME...
...survey by Dun & Bradstreet, top economists for U.S. corporations agreed that a further decline in overall business can be expected during the early months of 1961, with a recovery in the year's second half. About one-third thought the economy would get its main stimulus from Government spending. V. Stevens Hastings, Chase Manhattan Bank economist, looked ahead and liked what he saw: "The fact that the 1958 to mid-1960 upswing was less than normal does not affect the outlook for the '60s. The next upswing is just as likely to be greater than normal...
Cuties & Cold Cuts. The vogue was started by Burt Browne, 55, president of Burton Browne Advertising ($5,000,000 a year in billings, mostly in electronics accounts), who declares he is "the only saloonkeeper in the country listed in Who's Who, the Social Register and Dun & Bradstreet." In 1941, needing a place to entertain the "advertising manager from Seattle after feeding him a steak and three martinis," Browne converted a small office adjoining his agency into the Sundown Room, equipped it with a bar and attractive barmaid. Soon the Sundown Room became such a popular gathering place...
...cases triteness successfully holds out against insight. But they all build on the constants in human experience. In Success Story, for instance, an ancient fellow approaches a park bench. "Then he turned himself carefully round; bringing into the spring sunlight, pale as a primrose, his dun face, hollow-cheeked and dry; the great orbits of his sunk eyes; the long nose fallen at the tip; his white mustache, of thin separate hairs like glass threads . . . A string of muscle jerked in the shadow of the cheekbone." His success is twofold. In the first place a child of three takes...