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Died. Alan Ladd, 50, tough-guy movie hero, a slight and, in real life, amiable Californian who hit the marquees in 1942 as the suave, trench-coated hood in This Gun for Hire (with Veronica Lake), played much the same cool role some 200 times thereafter, winning brickbats from the critics (except in Shane) but such dogged admiration from the fans that, as he once said, "every time Paramount wants to meet the payroll, they start an Alan Ladd picture"; found dead in bed; at his Palm Springs, Calif., home...
...high federal taxes have been largely responsible for the sluggishness of U.S. economic growth in recent years. Among last week's voices calling for prompt and hefty tax cuts to stimulate economic growth were Hubert H. Humphrey, one of the Senate's most conspicuous liberals, and H. Ladd Plumley, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Implicit in the consensus on taxes is a recognition by liberals that Government expenditures cannot create sustainable prosperity, that individual incentives perform indispensable economic functions. President Kennedy has made that recognition explicit. Present tax rates, he said recently, "are so high...
Across the U.S., there are businessmen prepared to argue that the much-prophesied "1963 recession'' is already over even before 1963 arrives. Speaking in Washington, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President H. Ladd Plumley said: "One could almost say that we did, indeed, have a recession and are on the way to recovery." In New York, G.E. Chairman Ralph Cordiner sounded much the same note: "There has been quite a significant change in the economy . . . There's more resiliency...
Japan, having had a fling at making its own westerns (starring Jo Shishido, whom studio admen modestly call the "third fastest gun in the world"-after Gary Cooper and Alan Ladd), is still watching 20 U.S.-made western serials on television. In two glorious years, though, Nikkatsu studios turned out nearly 30 eastern westerns, starting with The Quickdrawer and finally losing heart with Mexican Vagabond this year. Mexico was the nearest Nikkatsu dared come to the real thing. Said a studio spokesman: "We have too great respect for American cowboys to invade the real wild West...
...conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce called for an immediate tax cut, even if it meant a budget deficit in the coming year-which it certainly would. Said Chamber President H. Ladd Plumley: "It's worth the cost." Less surprisingly, the Chamber wanted the cuts concentrated on corporations and upper-bracket individuals, because it believes that encouraging investment in plant and equipment is more important to economic growth right now than spurring consumer spending. Estimated cost of the Chamber cut: $7 billion to $10 billion...