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...palmier days, the New York Stock Exchange sought to preserve its affluent image and guard against conflicts of interest by sternly forbidding licensed security salesmen of member brokerage firms to take a second job. Lately, however, the exchange has had to greatly relax its longstanding rule against moonlighting. Reason: thousands of expensively trained sales specialists were leaving the brokerage business for other fields, as the stock market's deepening slump dried up commissions. Today, more and more securities salesmen who want to stay in the business and yet continue to eat are doing after-hours stints as bartenders, models...
...acquisition atop another, from auto parts to zinc mining. But along with many other conglomerates, G. & W. foundered when tight money and recession struck a couple of years ago. Now Bluhdorn is making a comeback, lifted by a business where luck is a necessity: motion pictures. In his palmier days, Bluhdorn bought Paramount Pictures, lately the producer of The Godfather, which will probably be the biggest moneymaker in cinema history...
...tobacco industry's palmier days, cigarette ads highlighted big-name stars with their cigarettes smoldering and innocent-looking young women who cooed, "Blow some my way." Now the message is moving in the other direction. The tobaccomen are being told by some celebrities: "Shove off." Last week, as the TV networks signed up sponsors for the 1969-70 season, big names and small names alike opened fire on cigarettes. At least two prime-time talents, Doris Day and Lawrence Welk, have sworn off performing on programs sponsored by cigarette manufacturers. So have a number of announcers, actors and commercial...
...gambols through the tango, the twist, and an agitated bit of neo-'20s dance nonsense called "the kangaroo." After his appearance in this wan swan song of the Broadway season, Cesare Siepi can always go back to the Met; Karnilova will dance again. In Rome's palmier days, the rest of Bravo Giovanni would have been thrown to the lions...
...Westbrook Poglor's palmier days, before the shadow of Franklin Roosevelt darkened the horizon, the fiery columnist wrote an essay entitled "Are Wrestlers People?" In his customary forthright way, Pegler concluded that any resemblance between "genus home" and "genus grappler" was in no way the fault of the wrestler...