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...Korean war the company jumped into airplane radomes and other Fiberglas and plastic shapes, and in 1953 invaded the school-furniture business. Last week, as a result of such triple playing, plus a fast-selling automatic pin setter for bowling, the company reported third-quarter earnings of $4.31 a share, almost double the same quarter last year...
...jail break complete with the rataplan of a Tommy gun, produced by his elastic larynx. "As long as someone laughs," says a friend, "Johnny is on. And someone is always laughing." Johnny was "on" the night he toured Manhattan bistros with an empty hand grenade (pulling the pin, he would cry: "Everybody goes when the whistle blows"). He was "on" when he panicked a staid hotel lobby by turning to a friend and barking in a loud, serious "tone: "We should have never operated in a hotel room. Granted he's alive, but you shouldn't have...
...become a PBH vo-volunteer is simple: all that is required is a person's signature. To do a competent job is more difficult. Working in an emergency ward or teaching in prison is not a glorious job; the rewards are quiet ones. The most external recognition is a pin signifying 100 hours of work. It is a most deserved accolade
What the exchange attempted to pin on Garvin, Bantel was some of the responsibility for the debacle in Government bonds this summer (TIME...
...difficult--what with people surging hither and yon in their daily occupations, the assaults of the shoe-shine boys, the little league, the baby carriage brigade and the woman shoppers; the subterranean rumble of the subway, the distant cacophony of bells, the mingled shouts of children and clash of pin-ball machines. Saddened (perhaps by the morning's news or the "No Loitering" sign), Harold sometimes sits at the corner table by the window and counts green book bags passing by or reads Kafka or sublimates with secretaries on their way to work...