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...penny panic broke out when a Washington coin dealer told a reporter that new 1960 pennies with flawed date numerals were "the hottest item in the coin business," bringing up to $8 apiece. When the story hit the papers, a post office in New Orleans had to put on seven extra clerks to handle the calls. An eager Philadelphian backed a trailer up to the mint, prepared to buy pennies by the bagful and take his chances. Nobody seemed to be listening when the Assistant Director of the Bureau of the Mint announced that the pennies in question were...
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...
...Kingston Trio's Sold Out was anything but. With fond backward glances at Billboard's bestseller chart, where Sold Out last week led all the rest, Capitol Records was keeping all music shops well supplied with the hottest album cut so far by the hottest group in U.S. popular music...
Coke Time (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The hippest, hottest (not necessarily the pleasantest) young voices now coming out of echo chambers are collected by Host Pat Boone-Paul Anka, Bobby Darin, Frankie Avalon, Edd ("Kookie") Byrnes...
...anyone's hand Paul Conrad, 35, editorial cartoonist of the Denver Post, counts as one of the fingered few, and is probably the nation's hottest new cartooning property. He has already been given a semiofficial anointment as the heir apparent to the Washington Post and Times Herald's brilliant and club-wielding Herbert Block ("Herblock"). Since January, a Conrad cartoon has gone out each week, together with five Herblocks, to the 200 newspapers in Herblock's syndication...