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...Hy-Marx...
...capitalized on this right and now publishes, from Boston instead of Cambridge, the Student Outline series--Hy-Marx. In 1948, a survey of Square best-sellers found that Segel's Student Outlines headed the list. A headline in the CRIMSON read: "`C'-Hungry Students Push Hy-Marx to Top of Student Best-Seller List...
William G. Perry, Jr., Director of the Bureau or Study Counsel, then referred to Hy-Marx as the "bibles of the get-by student." Segel attributed the boom to "high quality and usefulness. We capitalize on the exam-craze of these `get-by' students and give the `Gentlemen C' boys just what they want...
...Banana (words & music by Johnny Mercer; book by Hy Kraft; produced by Paula Stone & Mike Sloane) is the most enjoyable show, considering how many things are wrong with it, that Broadway has seen in years. Few recent musicals have been so generally fast on their feet; fewer still have been so truly funny. And none has been more of a one-man show...
...stock. Thanks to that dream, dozens of sharp, fly-by-night promoters in Toronto have struck it rich peddling worthless penny stocks to Americans. Spurred by the boom in Canadian oil (TIME, Sept. 24), dealers have flooded the U.S. with literature on such "promising opportunities" as Hy-Flow Petroleum, Golden Fleece Mines and Uranium Explorations, Ltd., have been able to bilk U.S. suckers of some $50 million (swindlers' estimate) a year. Sample come-on: "Our first stunned enthusiasm was fully warranted . . . This is the opportunity we had always dreamed about...