Word: glamourizer
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...1940s, Connecticut Playwright Clare Boothe Luce and California Actress Helen Gahagan Douglas added a much-needed touch of glamour to feminine political talent in Congress. Republican Luce raked the New Deal with quotable oratory, warned repeatedly of the rising power of Communist Russia. Six years after retirement, she was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Italy, served with distinction before resigning...
...seems to me that the Democrats are in somewhat the same position as the man who came home from the party engaged to the glamour girl when he actually needed a wife who could cook, sew and manage; and time alone would tell if he had made a mistake...
...Thirteen. Stop-loss orders have increased 25% in the past five weeks, Specialist John Coleman estimates, and have nearly doubled in some of the glamour stocks. The result: whenever the price dips, the stop-loss orders set off in a chain, and the stock plummets. Standard Kollsman stock was caught this way recently: the exchange canceled all Kollsman stop-loss orders on the books, has yet to restore them...
Inventive Brains. The hottest growth stocks are those that have the extra ingredient of glamour: a unique or fascinating product, or even the possibility of developing one. Born of an age of rockets and missiles, their companies bear such intriguing names as Itek (information classification), Haloid Xerox (office copying), Transitron (transistors), Ampex (tape recorders). Ionics (electrically charged filters that desalt water), and High Voltage Engineering (electronu-clear machines...
...their people, and that is good enough for me. Everyone I met seemed to know his business, what the company objectives were, and how they proposed to get there. Why look at the books? In growth companies, you need people with vision and organization." The new growth and glamour stocks, selling at up to 100 times earnings (blue chips average a mere 16 times earnings), are of such dubious value by older stand ards that Wall Street has its own jokes about them. Jack Dreyfus, head of the $109 million Dreyfus Fund, recently satirized the glamour business: "Take a nice...