Word: glamourizer
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...photographer said he was more interested in glamour, elegance and social position than he was in pure beauty. And on those counts, Lee Radziwill, 30, handily qualified for Philippe Halsman's gallery of eight of Europe's loveliest women, which appeared in Paris Match. Winding up his six-week study of the ladies, he found Lee in her London home, popped her into a Castillo evening gown and clicked away. "She has an extremely interesting and beautiful face," he said afterward. But presumably not all that fascinating to the editors of McCall's, who had eleven months...
Most Wall Streeters doubt that stocks are now riding for another fall. With the gift of 20/20 hindsight, they see that the 1961 market involved too much speculative buying by people who went deeply in debt to grab up stocks with more futuristic "glamour" than current earnings. This year's market leaders are blue-chip companies with strong earnings to back up their stock prices. Dow-Jones stocks are selling at 18.8 times per-share earnings, v. 22.9 times earnings in late 1961. The easily panicked amateur buyers, who deal in small lots, account for only 15.8% of trading...
...casings and scrap metal, South Korean civilians blunder into old but still murderous minefields. Red agents, trying to sneak south, are shot or captured by U.N. patrols. Last November North Korean soldiers raided an unalert U.S. post, lobbed in grenades and killed one G.I., wounded another. "There's glamour in South Viet Nam because you fight there," says a U.S. captain. "Here, it's worse because you aren't supposed to fight but you've got to be ready every instant. One false move and we've got a war on again...
These men deal in the issues of 11,000 companies that are not listed on any exchange. Unlisted issues are often the sharply curving "glamour" stocks, but they also include some solid shares of major companies that do not wish to be bound by the exchanges' strict reporting rules. Over-the-counter trading has increased 700% since World War II, and accounted for roughly 38% of the $103 billion worth of stock sales in 1961. Some 1,100 stock wholesalers operate in the O-T-C market. When a broker places an order for a customer, the wholesaler either...
There is a tomato famine in the land. So much time has passed since Hollywood last turned up a really luscious girl that even casting directors are reading Playboy. For the last several years, Hollywood has had to import its glamour, and its latest is a westbound CARE package from Germany named Elke Sommer...