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...Circulation of the Saturday Review has more than doubled in the last decade, and 1960 advertising revenue was $1,867,000, up $300,000 over 1959. But Cousins is anxious to accelerate the pace. With an editorial staff of only two dozen, the magazine has outgrown its quarters in midtown Manhattan, farms out its printing, and has almost no field sales organization (two representatives on the West Coast, one in the South...
...where it was hailed as "the Götterdämmerung of the gutter." Albee has since turned out four more one-act works, is currently working up from one-acters toward full-length drama by writing a two-act play that seems unlikely ever to appear on a midtown marquee. Its title: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
Knudsen next turned to traffic, found that, even from 200 ft. away, a truck barreling along Los Angeles' San Diego Freeway pushed the needle up to 91 decibels -which is still twelve decibels lower than an accelerating Lexington Avenue bus in midtown Manhattan. At 92 decibels, New York's Times Square is probably the world's noisiest intersection; London's Oxford Circus registers 87, and Paris' Place de la Madeleine...
...answer was to start her own gallery in Greenwich Village. She soon staged what she believes to be the first U.S. "Christmas Exhibition," with prices ranging from $10 to $50 (on the installment plan). Last week, when her gallery - still dubbed the Downtown, although it has long since moved midtown -launched its 35th annual Christmas Exhibition with a price list from $35 to $1,000, a line of 30 people stood outside the door. "We keep our rich collectors away for this sale, or they'd come in and buy six paintings at a time," she says...
Dealers did not share the good sales equally. Atlanta's Beaudry Ford reported sales ahead of last year by one-third. Manhattan's Midtown Chevrolet had "the greatest sales since we have been in business," sold 500 cars in October and expects to sell more than 500 in November. But Los Angeles dealers were disappointed by slower than usual sales, and Tulsa reported new-car sales off 25% from three months...