Word: interest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lead article in the current Advocate, "War Trial: Malmedy," seems strangely out of place in what is by rights a literary magazine. It is of topical interest, fitting in with what seems to be the Advocate trend started with "The Jew at Harvard" and continued last month by "The Club System: Pro and Con," but one wonders where this going afield on the part of the Advocate editors will lead...
...despite the earnest statement of the editors that it is "one which, we are confident, is of much importance and will be of interest to most students," it is precisely because the article is a piece of reporting that it doesn't belong. There are no conclusions drawn, only statements of alleged fact--not at all what one is looking for or what one expects to find in such a magazine as the Advocate...
...Sure to Look. In his 47 years at Deerfield, the Head has not changed his old ways. Though 69, he is still head coach of the varsity football, basketball and baseball teams, still bats out grounders before a big game. (Another interest: driving one of his three trotters in one of his eleven buggies.) He presides at his daily student assemblies; is always full of campus news and cracker-barrel advice ("The hills are changing color again. Be sure to look"). He still holds Sunday vespers, beaming when the boys sing "real loud." In campus affection he has only...
...years had Wall Street seen so many bears. They were counted officially last week in the New York Stock Exchange's monthly report on the "short interest"-i.e., the number of shares sold short against an anticipated decline. By mid-May, the short interest had risen 130,058 in a month to 1,628,551 shares, the biggest total since the bank panic of February 1933, when it reached a peak of 1,894,632 shares (but far below the record high...
...bulls had history in their favor. In twelve out of the last 18 years, the short interest peak was reached just before the market started up. The bears had guessed right only ,six times. Their failure was even more impressive when the short interest was measured in relation to the total volume of trading. In this ratio there were two previous peaks-in 1938 and 1948-as high as last week's. The 1938 bearish peak came just before the market shot up 52 points; the 1948 peak came during a 30-point rise. This moved Wall Street...