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Like a broken traffic light that shows both red and green, U.S. banks are glutted with savings, while their loan departments report a sharp fall-off in new business. Last week President Charles H. Brower of Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne stepped into the money jam, whistled up an adman's notion of creating motion. Advertising has the job of awakening desire, said hard-selling Charlie Brower to an American Bankers Association meeting in Chicago. His advice: let bankers quickly borrow some advertising techniques...
...problem. For though clearly the young lovers had far better have stayed apart, the play in the final and family sense is a lament for untogetherness. It dramatizes the barriers between generations, the dangers in families that have no communications system. What with the young couple's agonizing jam, the dangers in Blue Denim get vividly spotlighted and the story line holds. But there is not much at the end of the line, and there is more spotlight than illumination...
...southern Turkey experienced a new prosperity. Turkey's sugar production, which nearly trebled between 1950 and 1956, was barely able to keep pace with domestic demand. Reason: the Turkish peasant, with money in his pocket, had taken to using sugar for sweetening instead of honey or homemade fruit jam...
...furbelows that burden most musical telecasts. In the murky, smoke-choked studio, more than two dozen of the best jazz vocalists and sidemen worked through eight of the best jazz numbers with the kind of love, wonder, almost mystical absorption they usually summon up in the most free-wheeling jam sessions...
...YORK, Dec. 10--A growing subway strike, worst in the city's history, converted New York today into a vast, hopeless traffic jam. Two-thirds of the city's rapid transit service was knocked...