Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Furthermore, brokers' own commission rates, now the highest in history, might be an added drag on the market. In a dull market, profits of even a single point had been hard to make. When made, around a third of a point of the profit on a 100-share transaction in a cheap ($10) stock went for buying & selling commissions...
...soon gets a professional manager (Paul Stewart) and starts dropping other middleweights like bulls in a stockyard. He also becomes adept at dropping his friends, usually with a kick in the teeth. In one way or another, he gets rid of his bride (whom he married at the point of a gun), his manager, a couple of girl friends, and even his brother...
...wearisome recital of Bernard's troubles with publishers, poverty, his wife's unwelcome pregnancy and the everlasting pressure from Communist pals to make Bernard give up his creative independence and write party-line tracts. Farrell's handling of this overworked material is inept to the point of being ludicrous. Since Author Farrell seldom settles for less than a trilogy, Bernard Carr is almost bound to show up at least once more (The Road Between is a sequel to Bernard Clare-TIME, May 20, 1946). Perhaps it is still not too late to take Critic Fadiman...
...pursued the French fleet with his old, extraordinary combination of "unexampled patience" and fanatical excitement. "Nelson confides that every man will do his duty" was his original cocky message to his fleet, but he "cordially approved" when an officer suggested that "England expects . . ." would be more to the point...
...this point Alfred Hayes has written a terse and readable book, not the best of its kind but certainly a good evening's reading. If he had made his American as alive and interesting as his Italians, and bothered less about making all hands talk like characters out of Ernest Hemingway, he might have written a very good novel. His ending will strike some readers as tragic, some as sugary-depending on what the reader makes of it. Altogether, pliable ending and all, it seems made to order for Gary Cooper, who has just paid...