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Born. To Enos ("Country") Slaughter, 42, tobacco-chewing, knuckle-bald New York Yankee outfielder whose dependable pinch-hitting recalls a long, starring career with the St. Louis Cardinals (1938-53), and Helen Spiker Slaughter, 28, onetime airline stewardess: their second child, second daughter (he has a son by one of four earlier marriages); in Ridgewood, N.J. Name: Sharon Lynn...
...prosperous Japanese economy is currently feeling the pinch of recession-production is down, stockpiles and unemployment are up. Chinese steel production has quadrupled (but is still only 5,000,000 metric tons compared to Japan's 12.5 million), China's machine-tool production, doubled, is now almost on a par with Japan...
...bigger the business, the better it has resisted the recession. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission reported last week that in 1958's first quarter, small businessmen suffered the worst profits pinch. For manufacturers, the annual rate of after-tax profit to stockholders' equity...
...back the investment) in a bigtime nitery operation now, a boniface has to do boffo biz seven nights a week, and even then he may wind up flivving. Reason: the top-liners are slugging the spots for too much coin. The latest of the show bizites to feel the pinch are Manhattan's Lou Walters, whose "six-stage, super-Broadway showcase," Café de Paris, is deep in the red after only a month's operation, and Brooklyn's Ben Maksik, who last week shut down his cavernous Town & Country Club (TIME, April 7) for the summer...
...little, and that hazily. Phoenix Island is the hot season's first literary scantyweight, and it is fitfully amusing. The scarcely disguised locale is the New York summer resort of Fire Island, but the cast of psychoneurotic summer people and scurvy natives needs to be taken with a pinch of salt water...