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Bathtubs and Singing Dogs. Last week a reader of the Post could have learned that "Sears, Roebuck Heir Bob Rose will shoot only the greater kudu, sable antelope and mayala" in Mozambique (Doris Lilly), that "climbing, running and jumping in improper or outgrown shoes can do serious damage" (Josephine Lowman's "Why Grow Old?"), that ex-Blonde English Actress Barbara Steel's dark hair is nearer to her true hair color (Sidney Skolsky), or even, in the lead of Eleanor Roosevelt's column, that "We have just celebrated the Fourth of July." The Journal-American was busy...
...nation's securities markets, according to Chairman Gary, suffer from "a substantial amount" of manipulation, have outgrown the regulations established for them in 1934. With hundreds of thousands of unsophisticated investors invading the market, said Cary, a class of securities salesmen has grown up that is "not subject to the kind of supervision which insures high ethical standards." Fearful that there has been a consequent "lowering of standards in market operations," Cary wants to re-examine the rules to see if they sufficiently protect investors. Specifically, he is anxious to take a hard look at the over-the-counter...
...meet the problems of this "troubled age" only by "ceasing to think of religion as something unrelated to contemporary life, as something 'outgrown' since the time of those who founded Harvard College," President Pusey asserted yesterday...
Testing. 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...
...search for jobs more frenzied than in the noontime babble at the National Capital Democratic Club, a luncheon club that suddenly found itself doing a land office business. Initiation fees leaped from $30 to $50, and the board of governors was seeking a larger clubhouse to replace its outgrown quarters in the Sheraton-Carlton dining room. The new elite were greeted effusively at the club: Labor Secretary-designate Arthur Goldberg, dropping in for lunch with Michigan's Senator Pat McNamara, was welcomed by kisses from female members, wrenching handshakes from...