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Chances are that the new moves will not seriously restrain some of the giddiest speculation. Wall Street is less worried about speculation in listed stocks-though they, too, have their fast ups and downs-than about the speculation in new issues. Most new offerings first appear on the volatile over-the-counter market, where they are harder to control than on the exchanges. Datamation floated 80,000 shares at 2 in February, now is selling at 12½-even though it was in the red last year. Sealed Air Corp., which offered 100,000 shares at 1 last October...
...they look as if they'd crash from heaviness. But dress them in sequins, and they seem to fly." This year White used more sequins than ever before. Says he: "With aniline dyes you get color that vibrates, then you put sequins on top and you have the giddiest vibrations in the world. The shaking light makes more excitement; the whole thing has a juvenile quality." In following this theory. White suffered only one absolute failure. He had designed-"a beautiful sequined jacket for the tiger trainer," and when the tigers saw it they roared with rage. "They didn...
...sort of role that Rudolph Valentino, the greatest movie lover of them all, would have enjoyed. The role: an immigrant Italian tango-dancer rises from a gardener's job in Manhattan's Central Park to the giddiest heights of Hollywood stardom, and then dies at the age of 31. But independent Producer Edward (The Count of Monte Cristo) Small sees the story as a box-office natural. For eleven years Small has been getting his name in the papers year in & year out by promising to film Valentino's life...
Last week, while a cold wave gripped most of the U. S., Miami Beach and the rest of resort Florida was in full hothouse bloom, all figures indicating the biggest, giddiest season since Depression. Train and plane reservations were being booked two to four weeks in advance; 100% bet ter business over Christmas than in 1938 was reported by Seaboard Air Line Rail way; bus travel was up at least 25%; $3,000,000 more real estate had been sold in 1939 than in 1938 in Miami Beach, where sites were priced at from $800 to $1,000 a front...
...last week to John William Navin Sullivan. Son of a poor Irish sailor, Sullivan was one of the world's four or five most brilliant interpreters of physics to the world of common men-physics being a prosaic name for that vast branch of science which embraces the giddiest reaches of the universe, the four-dimensional time-space continuum of Relativity, the hidden dance and pulsations of electrons. He was also a novelist, a musician, a philosopher-above all, a dreamer...