Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Costs & Taxes. On the average, industry's second-quarter profits were running about 2% ahead of last year's high levels. Among the first 400 corporations to report, about half showed better earnings than in 1953. At the two extremes, the booming electric utility industry scored a 51...
Ernest Laszlo's photography and Robert Aldrich's direction help make the film appear a little grander than it really is. There are some fine shots of a realistic Indian village and of hazy plains and sawtooth mountains. Good scene: Massai's bewilderment as he wanders through...
THE PENNY THAT ROLLED AWAY, by Louis MacNeice (Putnam; $2.25), is a coin's-eye view of the world pegged on the comic misadventures of "a dime called Dinah and a nickel called Nick and a brown baby sister called Penny for short," who "lived in a Piggy Bank...
THE MAGIC FISHBONE, by Charles Dickens (Vanguard; $2.50), frames a Cinderella story and a magic wish round the theme that "when we have done our very, very best . . . and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others." In a handsome...
Napoleon wrote between 50,000 and 70,000 letters in this way during the 15 years of his dictatorship. Thirty-nine years after Waterloo, Napoleon III (youngest son of the first Emperor's brother, Louis Bonaparte) ordered "official" (i.e., edited and censored) publication of the correspondence-and landed his...