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Such a broad and bright market led many an investor to play the old stubby pencil game of "How much would I have now if . . ." If he had bought 100 shares of some stocks, even at the 1929 pre-crash highs, he would now have a pile. Examples, counting stock splits and dividends, but not counting cash dividends and rights, of how each share multiplied: Stock '29 High (One Share) Last Week Number of Shares Now $ Total Value
...white of the New Race"-who overflow her prefab schoolhouse. There are screams from little brown Ara: "Miss Vottot! Seven he's got a knife! He's cutteen my stomat!" Blossom's nose needs wiping, Matawhero's shirt must be tucked in, Dennis' lost pencil found, Twinnie's tears crooned away, lice plucked from Mere's hair. And more screams: "Miss Popoff, Seven he's trying to kill us all with the axe for nutteen!" Anna revels in the torrent of these different personalities, faces and colors. She thinks to herself that...
...young man used to ride the New York subways with a pencil in his pocket and a chip on his shoulder. Sometimes, when he saw the placards for a cosmetic lotion urging straphangers to preserve the soft white beauty of their hands, he would take out his pencil and scrawl derisive comments: "How about Negro hands?" or "What if you're Chinese?" Car cards urging brotherhood and tolerance got the inscription: "There is bigotry in America." The girl who often rode with him would remonstrate, but the young man scarcely heard her. Even then, she recalls, "there...
...jitters, the much-criticized Vanguard ran a perfect race last week. Of seven earlier Vanguard firings, six had been failures, and the seventh put only a grapefruit-sized, 3.25-lb. satellite in orbit. Last week's shot was perfect. All three stages of the 72-ft., pencil-slim rocket fired without a hitch. The satellite, which had the full design weight of 21.5 Ibs., settled into an orbit slightly higher than had been expected. Its perigee (lowest point) is 347 miles above the earth; its apogee (highest point) is 2,065 miles. Its batteries will go dead in about...
Albers' inkless intaglios were made by pressing wet, heavy paper onto an engraved plate. They result from hundreds of ink and pencil drawings on graph paper made over the past decade. Why does he print without ink? "I am trying to reduce my means-it is a demonstration of my economic inclination," he explains with a sly twinkle behind his glasses. Albers has an equally simple explanation for the ambiguity of his new pictures and their shifting forms: "My purpose is to show that within the same skeleton different actions may appear. In Duo B the left and right...