Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newsman, playwright, novelist and Hollywood script mechanic, Ben (The Front Page) Hecht, 63, has always been a fast man with the spoken word. He is so fast, in fact, that ever since he took over a TV weeknight interview show on Manhattan's WABC this fall, his guests have been hopelessly outclassed in the fight for mike time. Mixing it up with experts in varied fields ranging from erotica to execution by hanging, Hecht has been calculatedly outrageous and often funny. Last week he turned on Hollywood, bit the hands that used to feed...
...Producers. Most of them "became bosses because they were serious-looking fellows. They knew nothing but could talk fast." Cecil B. DeMille "has been sort of a one-man dark ages that has reigned in Hollywood for 30 or 40 years. He learned the trick of making movies about horses, for horses, and he got terribly wealthy." But Sam Goldwyn is "a higher-class fellow. A fine producer, he has no head . . . He has a very intellectual stomach. It would react at a distance of 50 pages. If you were reading a script and it had a wrong passage...
...only 55% of undergraduates was of traditional college age, 18-21. The proportion of older students has grown fast, to about 40%. More students each year-29% of men, 10% of women at last count-are married. Four students out of ten earn more than half their college expenses, about twice the pre-World War II number...
Forget the Present. Worry about inflation was one of the factors sending the market skyward. There was also realization that lagging earnings can come back fast (see below). Thus, though stocks in historic terms are overpriced (18 times earnings for the industrials), many Wall Streeters are using a method to evaluate them which simply disregards the present. Said Edmund W. Tabell, top market analyst for Walston & Co.: "What an investor must do is take an average of earnings over the past five years [$32 for the industrials], measure it against projected 1959 earnings [now being quoted at a record...
...time when the glass broke in 1914 and the killing four-year frost came in. Her personal story is romantic enough to make Ouida-lady laureate of the plush paradise-blush for modesty. It is offset by the tough self-knowledge of an aristocracy that called a pretty fast tune but was prepared to pay a stiff price for the piper. One-fourth of the book is occupied by the war diaries and letters of Alfred Duff Cooper, an infantry officer in France. After censoring a letter home from a soldier, he recorded that the man had written...