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...Jangling Summons. In the midst of this busy scene a burly, quick-moving man barked directions, flopped restlessly around his office from one chair to another, longed for the 4½ daily packs of Viceroys he had given up last fortnight, conferred endlessly with associates, and paid minute-to-minute obeisance to the jangling summons of his telephone (in one normal day, recently, he received 94 incoming calls, not counting interoffice conversations). At 10:52 a.m., the precise moment when the President's press conference broke up, Leonard Wood Hall, chairman of the Republican National Committee, fastened a gold...
...Soviet navy (which apparently still has no atom subs) SSGN 587 was only the latest of a series of unpleasant undersea developments. Fortnight ago the Mare Island yards began work on Sargo, the U.S. Navy's fifth nuclear-powered submarine, and the first to be built on the West Coast. Shorter (257 ft.) and lighter (2,300 tons displacement) than Nautilus, Sargo will combine Nautilus' endurance with greater speed and maneuverability, and when she is commissioned in 1958, she should be the world's most effective submarine. Sargo's pre-eminence promises to be short-lived...
...meetings of composers were brought about by the fullest fortnight of modern music Manhattan has ever heard. Chief instigators were the Juilliard School of Music, which commissioned 32 U.S. composers for its 50th anniversary celebration, and New York City's highbrow station WNYC, which stages an annual American Music Festival between Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays. With a handful of other outfits also producing 20th century music, there were no fewer than 236 compositions by 149 U.S. composers, as well as a few imports. Last week's standouts...
...example, Silver Shield System, Inc. opened its doors in New York 20 months ago, was soon handling $7,000,000 annually, had plans for expanding nationwide. Fortnight ago New York State Attorney General Jacob Javits capped a year of investigation by charging that Silver Shield had engaged in "false and misleading advertising," and "commingled" clients' money with its own. Far from balancing anyone else's budget, it could not even balance its own; it had a deficit of $100,000. As Javits moved for an injunction against the company for fraudulent practices, Silver Shield, a Delaware corporation, announced...
STOCK EXCHANGE SEATS have reached a 19-year high. Last week a seat sold for $100,000 v. $95,000 only a fortnight ago. For the first time in a quarter-century, not one of the 1,366 memberships in the New York Stock Exchange was for sale...