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Those who backed their expectations with money in Wall Street were more inclined to go along with Sloan. The stock-market perked up last week after more than two months of listless decline. The volume of trading passed a million shares in two sessions v. only one million-share session in September. Moreover, prices edged up in all of the sessions, boosting the Dow-Jones industrial average up 3.59 for the week to 179.44. The week's activity was still too mild to confirm any trend. But traders were more cheerful than they had been in weeks...
Tired Tourist. Evita, grown pale and listless in the heat, had only a languid eye for the mannequins who gave an unprecedented private showing from four of the best-known houses of French haute couture. Other women have to go to the dressmakers; but the dressmakers came to Evita. Members of her entourage said she was "very tired." She canceled an appointment to visit the Louvre, and Father Benitez pinch-hit for her on the radio...
...whole, the film has an oddly split personality. As a story of individuals it is at best sincere, ordinary and likable, without exciting much interest. But whenever the individual actors are ignored and the camera watches the hard formations or the listless stragglings of masses of men-or, still better, examines the terrible bleakness of the camp itself under several kinds of weather-the screen comes alive. Some of the shots of the desolate Nazi camp (taken in a real one, Marlag, in the British zone near Hamburg) imply, within a few seconds, months on end of quiet, soul-dissolving...
...listless first-half performance and a crafty Princeton forward named George Lawry cost the Varsity basketball team its second consecutive Ivy League defeat last night at the Boston Garden. The Tigers, leading...
...Lewis words were enough, of course, to carry the business and set the strategy of the four-day meeting. Automatically, the listless delegates racked up some 1,400 resolutions, concerned mostly with new wage-&-hour demands to be sprung on the mine owners before the Government steps out of the coal-mining business. But the delegates stamped and whistled happily only when the resolutions: 1) praised Lewis; 2) called for a "substantial" raise in Lewis' $25,000-a-year salary; 3) proposed to create a new U.M.W. holiday to honor Lewis (probably Feb. 12, Lewis' birthday...