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...look devastatingly sexy. New York Fashion Plate Betsy Theodoracopulos, who wears her skirts four inches above the knee, says that she likes the high-rise boots because "they give my legs a sleek stocking look, and besides, without them I'd look like an overgrown teen-ager." On fatter legs, they often verge on the ludicrous. "Have you ever seen a bowlegged girl wearing them?" asks a Boston secretary. "They look like patent-leather parentheses...
...commodity pits, where the action is faster, the risks greater and the rewards fatter, records have piled up also. Helped by the lower margin requirements-5% to 15% v. the stock market's 70%-speculators are busily buying or selling 37 kinds of commodities ranging from wheat and sugar to orange juice and torn turkeys. Last year a record 10,460,000 contracts were bought and sold; the rate this year is almost the same. Traders lured by the idea of making $10,000 out of pork bellies on a $700 investment constitute a surprising cross section of America...
Anderson's sight gag becomes howlingly funny when the first auditioner (Martin Balsam) appears. Anxious for the part but puzzled by its demands, the actor agrees to become fatter or thinner, remove his toupee, shave his chest-anything. As the real test of his abilities becomes clear to him, he begins to unbutton his shorts with a what-the-hell bravado. But life's little irony is that the playwright has fled, being the sort of man who cannot bear a dirty joke, let alone cast a nude male...
...With fatter coffers, the Bulletin could afford to pay its contributors, who now write with no more reward than seeing their byline in print. Eventually Bethell would like to expand the staff if his advertising drive succeeds...
...matching the high 1957 level - the suppliers have a number of problems. Demand continues strong and refineries are being forced to pay more for crude oil. Labor settlements early this year have increased industry wages by 4%; dealers, also squeezed by higher wages, have long been screaming for fatter prices at the pump...