Word: peakes
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...never has appeared on Saturday (it now comes out Tuesdays). As publisher of some of the best 19th century fiction, from Edgar Allan Poe to James Fenimore Cooper, it enjoyed a nationwide vogue. But reading tastes change, and by 1897 Post circulation had wasted to 2,000 from a peak of 90,000; the magazine was sold to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, a former Maine dry goods clerk who had demonstrated an early flair for publishing. Starting with a weekly called the Tribune and Farmer, Curtis, with some help from his wife, moved in 1883 into the neglected field...
...army officer, Toni was born in Suffolk, educated in Anglican schools in England except for a three-year sojourn in Malaya (1955-58), when her father put in a stint in Kuala Lumpur. After finishing high school, Toni went to work as a payroll clerk for London's Peak Engineering Co. But, as one company official tactfully explained, "her calculations were rather erratic," and she ended up on the telephone switchboard...
Toward the Peak. Kramer should have no trouble keeping his part of the bargain. The current U.S. tour started out as a box-office bomb; in a crowded Augusta, Ga., during the week of the Masters Golf Tournament, only a handful of spectators turned out. But attendance is now picking up, largely because perennial Champion Gonzales is finding Newcomer Gimeno a tough man to beat. As the tour swung into the Midwest last week, Gimeno trailed Gonzales by seven matches (12 to 5) and he was growing more confident daily. "In two more years," said Gimeno...
Putting their fingers to the wind, after first running their eyes up and down the latest charts, Government economists last week set the date when they expect the recovering economy to regain its former peak: the end of August. If their calculations are right, the recovery would be one of the swiftest in recent U.S. history, following a recession that already ranks (in percentage of decline) as the mildest. Measured by the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production, recoveries to pre-recession highs since 1919 have taken between five months and 17 months (see chart). If the present recession...
Died. James Melton, 57, handsome strapping (6 ft. 2½ in.), Georgia-born tenor who hit his peak in the 1940s with the Metropolitan Opera and such radio shows as The Telephone Hour; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A practical-joking extravert who once had an ambulance deliver him to a party on a stretcher. Melton got his first job by bellowing melodically outside the locked office of Impresario Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, who unlocked the door, hired him on the spot. Almost as well known as his voice was his $250,000 collection of vintage autos, including a one-cylinder...