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...written (called Yes), and rehearsing (in New York City) for an appearance with Benny Goodman on TV's Swing into Spring. In Hollywood he barely had time to drop in at the Pantages Theater on his thirtieth birthday to collect a glittering memento of his most recent success: an Oscar (see SHOW BUSINESS) for his scoring of the musical Gigi...
...breaking Lieut. Jimmy Doolittle's record with an average 246 m.p.h.; of a heart attack; in Rome. Once known in the U.S. as the "Flying Fascist," De Bernardi was a World War I ace (nine enemy planes), flew experimental jets as early as 1940, in recent years put all his savings into the development of a two-cylinder, 40-h.p. single-seater not much bigger than the dragonfly for which it was named. Last week De Bernardi heard that a group of aviation experts had collected at a Roman airport to watch some German pilots demonstrate a new light...
...union held the line on wages the companies would hold the line on steel prices. The letter set forth that the Steelworkers have no ground for higher wages, no need to "catch up," because their wages have risen more than those of nearly all other industrial groups in recent years. Steel wages are now 38% above the average for all manufacturing, compared to 20% above in 1953; they average $3.03 an hour v. $2.19 for manufacturing workers generally. Well aware that steel profits will be fat, the steelmakers tried to answer in advance any union claim that these...
What had everyone concerned was the biggest public participation in the market since the '20s; a recent survey by the exchange showed that 25% of those interviewed were interested in the market v. 9% a year ago. Nevertheless, many Wall Streeters felt that the warnings were being overdone. Said A. Charles Schwartz, senior partner of Bache & Co.: "It is stupid, after years of a publicity campaign to get more people to buy stocks, to come out now and blow the whistle...
Several remarkable platters of pressed peat have been offered the reader in recent years, the more bizarre of them including At Swim-Two-Birds, by Flann O'Brien (alias Myles na gCopaleen), and The Ginger Man (TIME, June 2), by J. P. Donleavy. Ireland's Ralph Cusack, an eccentric horticulturist and ex-painter, has written Cadenza as if to prove that O'Brien and Donleavy were squares and that James Joyce was well within his rights when he borrowed the English language and returned it in a condition unfit for use by the original owners. Cadenza...