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...Detroit Father Dustin is as well known for his accomplishments on the banjo as he is for his work at the city's Holy Redeemer Church. Songs Father Taught Me, a record album that he cut with his own Dixieland combo of six lay musicians, is the fastest-selling disk in town (more than 5,000 to date). Says Marvin Jacobs, general manager of Detroit's Music Merchants, Inc., Father Dustin's distributor: "In the language of the record industry, he's got it in the groove...
...finished products will be hit harder. This includes high-duty products that compete directly with Europe's fastest-growing industries, such as finished chemicals and steel, machinery and electrical equipment, cars and trucks. But there should always be a brisk market for U.S. specialties, ranging from automated gear to wash-and-wear fabrics. In this year's first quarter. Common Market imports of U.S. office accounting and computing machines more than doubled, to $23 million. Says the Chase Manhattan Bank: "Those U.S. exports will fare best that are unique -in performance, design or cost...
...director: "When she starts singing, I hafta chase my kids out of the room." This nemesis of children is a babyfaced, 20-year-old Swedish-born singer named Ann-Margret Olson, who, with an arcane appeal to the teen-age mystique, has one of the summer's fastest-moving single records. Songstress Margret (she has dropped her last name professionally) is that rarity in the record field: a girl singer who can really make a pop song pop. In a pulsating, slightly nasalized voice, pleasant but still more callow than mellow, she bleats across the land a sugary lament...
Justerini & Brooks has sold Scotch whisky to the Americans so vigorously that its J. & B. is now one of the fastest-moving brands on the U.S. market-up from 70,000 cases in 1954 to an expected 700,000 this year. Largely as a result of this successful invasion of the U.S., Justerini & Brooks's 1960 pre-tax profit topped $1,000,000, and its stock has jumped in the past seven years from 70? to $399 on the London Exchange...
...Adios Butler, world's fastest pacer (TIME, June 30), gave his victory-jaded fans something extra to cheer about in last week's one-mile Dan Patch Pace at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway. The Butler breezed home 3½ lengths in front on the half-mile track, tied Bye Bye Byrd's 1959 world record...