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...Pshaw. Convinced that blue chips have already had their fast runup, institutional investors are now concentrating on the vast mass of "secondary" issues. So far, the secondary issues into which the money is flowing are fairly good quality; brokers cannot yet see much sign of a speculative binge in low-priced and questionable stocks. Still, some of the old ebullience is returning. Market letters are full of advice to the investor on how to look for "bargains" among the many stocks that remain 50% or so below their peaks. The Dines Letter recently disdainfully dismissed any thought of conservatism...
...course Potter had no "old heart trouble." That was a bit of good gamesmanship. But alas, he never did correct the attribution, and I would so have liked to have my name, even in a footnote, in one of those great books of his. Mr. Pound -pshaw...
...risky for a star to be so outspoken about political and military affairs? Pshaw, says Vaughn. "I've had nothing but encouragement from my friends in the industry, from the studio, even the network...
...Festival of Playwrights Whose Names Begin with S-H-A. Then it can offer not only Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw but also Irwin Shaw and Shairp and Shakhovsky and Shadwell. But when a so-called American Shakespeare Festival puts on Caesar and Cleopatra, the proper comment can only be "Pshaw...
Comments ranged from "Excelsior!" to "Pshaw." One high-ranking Administration flunkey said only, "Plunk yore magic twanger, Froggie...