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...example, underwriters provided $25 million worth of Kansas City Power & Light bonds with a 6.67% rate, a record among top-grade electric utilities. New York City sold $45 million worth of housing bonds that offered investors up to 5.36% tax free, the juiciest return on a city issue since the early '30s. Most startling of all, the Federal Government paid its highest interest rate since the Civil War*-6.45% per year-to sell part of a $1 billion issue of securities...
...percentage of the 250 people chosen to participate in the festival were inexperienced, younger undergraduates, many of whom wrested juicy parts away from their elders. Seltzer was bringing a totally new generation into the Loeb. And yet, as his detractors were quick to note, Seltzer had given himself the juiciest parts of all. He was to direct Julius Caesar, starring Hamlin, and to star in King Lear, directed by Hamlin. Many excluded from major roles in the festival saw a Seltzer conspiracy to build an organization geared toward Seltzer's goal of putting the Loeb in the course catalogue. More...
Heavens Above! bears the hallmark of the Boulting Brothers, whose I'm All Right, Jack gave Sellers his alltime juiciest part. It is a collage of comic bits pasted together with satire: Sellers walking into an open grave in a rainstorm, Sellers munching dog biscuits along with his sherry, a train compartment full of clerics looking startled when "the last supper" is announced in the dining car ahead...
...three-generation nutshell, West follows the Prescott family West. They set out as sodbusters in 1839, marry, multiply, get killed off along the way in drownings, fights, and wars, until at the end the only Prescott left is an octogenarian Debbie Reynolds. Many of the juiciest roles are just a drop in the Cinerama bucket. Thelma Ritter is a snappish delight as a man-hungry wagon woman. Walter Brennan is deliciously vile as a river pirate who uses his vamp-eyed daughter (Starlet Brigid Bazlen) as bait to lure fur-laden Trapper Jimmy Stewart to a temporary downfall...
Second place in the Ivy League and the New England championship are two of the plums that go to the winner of the Harvard-Yale lacrosse game here tomorrow afternoon. But the juiciest plum, of course, is simply a victory over Yale. And it won't be easy...