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Dinners & Soup. British beefeaters have always been the biggest customers for Argentine canned, chilled and fro zen beef; in 1959 British purchases accounted for two-thirds of Argentina's exports. But since then, overproduction of beef by British farmers has forced a sharp cutback of nearly 20% in British buying. Fortunately for the Argentines, other European customers and newly opened markets behind the Iron Curtain and in Egypt, Israel and Portugal are taking up the slack...
...throes of attendance slumps. Ticket sales are 94,426 off last year's midseason mark in Milwaukee. 105,211 in Pittsburgh, 167,257 in Cleveland. Last year's box-office leaders, the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers, both report declines: 14,270 fro the Yanks, 38,935 for the Dodgers. Total big-league attendance is down 126,158, and the figure would be far worse except for Boston-where the surprising Red Sox, with the two top American League hitters in the lineup and exciting Dick Radatz in the bullpen, have attracted 275,082 extra...
James befriended and encouraged him over a long period of lonely years --their correspondence is voluminous. But they were poles apart temperamentally. James wrote for a large, broadly educated audience; he stressed the general outline, the exhortation the sprightly analogy. Peirce strove fro precision, elegance and an impeccable logical structure...
Presbyterian Missionary Brown once jovially compared himself to Satan in the Book of Job, who spent considerable time "going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." He was born in Holliston, Mass., and never lost his love for the hard old New England way of life, with its boiled dinners and God-fearing Sundays. He admired the iron and certainty of the traditional Calvinist theology, "stern and rockbound" like the coast of Maine...
...tall fellow with fragile hands, a fragile manner, and a coldly unsentimental eye, and he has now come to New York to stage William Inge's forthcoming Natural Affection. This is the story of an unmarried mother (Kim Stanley) whose son returns fro'm reform school, shows raging jealousy toward her lover, and eventually becomes a murderer. Despite its grim outline, Inge can be counted on to have loaded the whole with rich marblings of mawkishness. Richardson can be counted on to melt the mawkishness away...