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Reese's cartoons are a mixture of ink and acid. "You live your life sentence, I'll live mine," one Reese convict growls at another over mess-hall coffee. Says a guard to a prisoner in solitary on bread and water: "White or rye?" Says an inmate to a guard: "Let's get one thing straight, McPherson: I live here, you just work here." Occasionally Reese slips into macabre, sick-style prison humor: "Ain't I a pain in the neck?" says the hangman to the condemned. But some of his cartoons rise to a choking...
...Philadelphia trainmaker, dropped 28% in sales, and Douglas Aircraft 33%. And as in 1960, 24 of the nation's biggest industrial companies actually operated at a loss. General Dynamics, which lost a massive $143 million on its jet-transport debacle (TIME, Sept. 15 et seq.), led the red-ink list. It was followed by J.I. Case (loss: $32 million), Yuba Consolidated ($14 million), Ling-Temco-Vought ($13 million), Underwood ($9 million) and Hearst ($9 million). Of these seven heavy losers, all but Ling-Temco-Vought had also...
...count, and they settle on a deal whereby the count can have his wife, instead of a call girl, at $600 a night. In the story's sardonic finale, Pupe tearfully prepares for her "job" as the count waves a check in the bedroom air to dry the ink...
...Herald Tribune still broke out in a rash of eight stories, as well as a Page One editorial blaming the decline on President Kennedy ("Unease about Mr. Kennedy's course is undeniably a major factor"). Hearst's Journal-American waved one streamer after another, in appropriate red ink. But behind all this breathless coverage lay a fact in which few U.S. papers could take pride. By a country mile, they had missed the biggest financial story of the year...
...however, that Biff shudder as if a cold caught him. As he lifted its slowly, he saw two things-inside first was a simple white card neatly printed on it in red ink man numeral seven enclosed circle. Beside it was a tiny mic needle...