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This would be soap opera if the author were not unusually good at transforming acute, intuitive perceptions into sentences. Writing, this is called. Alice, half cracked, notices an overweight townswoman: "Her partially exposed freckled bosom, confined in its pushup bra, was barking and whining to get out." She slaps a hostile child: "He had absorbed the blow. It was as if the sting had gone right to a spot inside where he stored his wounds." And here is Alice's tiny daughter putting a clammy hand on her arm and trying to console her: "When I was your...
...Monaco. Referring to her chopped hair and flair for less than feminine attire, Blackwell, whose little-used first name is Richard, bitingly declared, "Her royal unisex wardrobe entitles her to use either bathroom." Then the clawing got cloying. No. 2 on the list was Joan Collins ("One more pushup and she'll have three chins"), and by the time he got to No. 10, he was reduced to savaging TV's Fall Guy Co-Star Heather Thomas as an "exploding, overstuffed cabbage." A tasteless barrage indeed...
Fradd is the power behind the pushup. In charge of the whole conditioning program, he has been laying the plans on which each day's exercises are based. In conferences with the individual in structors, he points out what he wants emphasized each week, and the men have a certain amount of latitude in devising their own pet contortions to achieve the desired effect...
Just as "investment trust buying" was a potent pushup factor in 1929, "investment trust selling" has been a big knock-down factor in many a stock recently. Last week Tri-Continental Corp., investment trust sponsored by J. & W. Seligman & Co., issued its third quarter report?one of the first major trusts to do so. At the same time Selected Industries, Inc., Tri-Continental supervised, published its showing. The investments of Tri-Continental Corp. had, on Sept. 30, a market value of 29 millions against a cost of 51 millions. The common stock had a book value of $2.84 against...