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...Reform or even abolition of the Index of Prohibited Books. The Index, says Küng, ensures "to any book placed upon it the widest possible circulation...
...selling pressure that more than 4,000,000 shares changed hands in the final 30 minutes of trading, and the last transaction did not clear the ticker tape until 2½ hours after closing. In the second bleakest day in Wall Street's history, the Dow-Jones industrial index plunged 34.95 to 576.93-21% below its peak of last December...
...that the funds and insurance companies would move back into the market heavily only after the Dow-Jones drops another 70 to 540. Adds Bliss: "I wouldn't be surprised if the Dow-Jones earnings dropped to $33 in the first quarter of next year, and then the index would have to go down to 500 before you started buying...
...there were a few notable bearish growls. Walstorrs Tabell, who last August predicted the current selloff, now looks for a slow, two-stage climb back to about 750 on the Dow-Jones index-and then a slump of even greater severity than the present one. Los Angeles Investment Counselor Richard Ney, who once played Greer Carson's son in Mrs. Miniver and later married her, has been blatantly bearish most of the time since last October...
Surrounding it is a dense, many-layered rind of preface, commentary and index, compiled by a scholarly ass named Charles Kinbote. This obtuse fellow imagines himself to have been a great friend of Shade's. Actually, as is absurdly and delightfully evident after a few pages, Kinbote knew the old poet for only a few months, and their friendship consisted of bare toleration on Shade's side...