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Despite assurances from the economists that a new boom is coming, many a U.S. businessman last week could not conquer an uneasy hunch that for a while yet U.S. prosperity would be a kind of austere affluence. In a panel discussion of the business outlook sponsored by the First National Bank of Chicago, President Ralph Lazarus of Federated Department Stores predicted that steadily rising personal income would continue to improve retail sales, but added: "We foresee substantial growth, but not a sharp, runaway boom." President Robert S. Ingersoll of Borg-Warner Corp. looked for only a "gradual and minimal" upturn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: A Certain Caution | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...Donald Davis speaks well--too well in face: this king is stronger and younger than he should be. Paul Spares and Colgate Salsbury are credits to the small roles of Lennox and Seyton; and it is an inspired touch to make Macbeth's servant (Julian Miller) into a hunch-back...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Macbeth | 7/6/1961 | See Source »

...good at writing novels (The Underground City) and miserably inept at ingratiating himself with police; and John Mitchell, a coffeehouse proprietor currently protesting one of Manhattan's customary coffeehouse operating expenses, the police shakedown. (Deputy Police Commissioner Walter Arm admitted last week that "we have an uneasy hunch that some cops take money.") Humes and Mitchell spoke loudly about free speech, the sorry behavior of police officers, and the logical theory that Village real estate men would like to see all the bohemians migrate to The Bronx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folkways: The Foggy, Foggy Don't | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...last of the Easter tourists a helping hand with their hotel bills, a couple of long shots came home in the first and second races at Florida's Gulf stream Park, paid Daily Double winners $4,580.70-biggest return in the track's history. Only 20 hunch players held $2 tickets; there were no other bettors on the unlikely combination of 30-1Corporal J. P. and70-1 Greco Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard: Apr. 14, 1961 | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

Boston Bourbon & Saliva Sir: The piece on Painter Mark Rothko in TIME was terrific! "Yet if there is a painter alive who appears to be painting nothing, it is Rothko !" You said it, man-nothing ! You'd better check your art department-I've a hunch someone may be putting bourbon in the water cooler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 24, 1961 | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

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