Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tire & Rubber was down 3.8% in sales for 1958, yet managed to hit record profits, up 2% to $6.08 per share. After a poor third quarter, Reynolds Metals did so well in the last quarter that it actually increased its full-year earnings slightly, to $3.25 per share. Du Pont had the best fourth quarter in three years, with profits 20% better than the same quarter of 1957, while Textron's net jumped 24% to a record $2.51 per share...
...black hair straggled to her shoulders, and her tight tweeds strained in odd bulges. For three weeks of rehearsal, she worked as unobtrusively as if she were the second lead's standin. But when the Du Pont Show of the Month put What Every Woman Knows on the air last week, she gave new life to the dated charm of the J. M. Barrie play. As Maggie Wylie, the homely but wise and witty Scottish lass who is the real reason behind her bartered bridegroom's success, Ireland's Siobhan (pronounced Shi-vawn) McKenna...
...wear the pants in the family, but it is the women who choose them. So said Du Pont last week after a survey of 728 married couples. It reported that 85% of the women and 67% of the men thought it was the wife's responsibility to see that the husband was well dressed. Furthermore, the women knew more about the materials used in men's clothes -and 52% of the men admitted it. Wives, Du Pont noted, accompany their husbands on suit-buying expeditions about half the time, buy half the men's shirts without even...
...reduce her to tears. She drinks too much, writes too little and apparently wants nothing but the affection that a pointless life has denied her. When the young Russian named Dima comes along, the accident of love is as inevitable as the bump of a skidding taxicab on the Pont Royal. Their love affair begins with a drink, a look and a touch. It flames, gutters and flames again...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.).* If the makeup man can make Siobhan McKenna look dowdy, nothing at this late date should get in the way of J. M. Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, a well-thumbed treatise on giving a career-climbing hubby a homely leg-up; with James Donald, Martita Hunt...