Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite heavy flurries of profit taking, the stock market last week continued its astonishing January upsurge. Moving upward on three of the five trading days, the Dow Jones industrial average rose a total 24.32 points to close the week at a lofty 953.95, the highest mark since October 1973. In...
The startling spurt in volume reflects a fortunate confluence of willing sellers and even more eager buyers. Odd-lot statistics (those on trades of fewer than 100 shares) indicate that the sellers are largely individual investors. Many had ridden their stocks up from the market's 1974 low of...
Died. Paul Robeson, 77, superbly talented and ultimately tragic singer, actor and civil rights leader who won a world fame known to few blacks of his generation and spent his last years sick, half-forgotten and, in Coretta Scott King's words, "buried alive"; following a stroke; in Philadelphia...
The young man unerringly plays on all of their weaknesses. He is mysterious, vaguely dangerous. They know he is not a poet--he confuses the husband, Lewis Fielding, with the author of Tom Jones--but that is about the only thing they know. He is intriguing to them in their...
Brayton won't mention names, and his bitterness never singles out one rival or one front office villain. Part of this is because he respects some of the pitchers he played with and lived with who are on the brink of the big time, like Don Aase and Rick Jones...