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Eliot also suggested that the landscape architect start out on his own, and not with a large firm. "It is riskier, but you know very soon whether you can do it, and you learn more quickly...
...that values security, there is perhaps less security for the average creative writer than before. Says Malcolm Cowley: "I don't know whether insurance companies have tried to estimate the life expectancy of writers. Such figures, if compiled, might show that writing was one of the riskier occupations, comparable in its mortality rates with deep-sea diving, structural-steel working, and piloting experimental planes. A writer is always experimenting with new methods of soaring to heights or plunging into depths. He always has to struggle . . . and sometimes the fruits of the struggle are only exhaustion and discouragement." The struggle...
...that in a depression, with more workers retiring early, funds will have to take big losses to raise the cash they need. On the other hand, some critics feel that fund purchases are actually too conservative; too much of the money is in blue chips and too little in riskier, but better-paying issues...
...Whitehead will present Clifford (Golden Boy) Odets' new The Flowering Peach, plus a pair of plays still in the works. With three Broadway theaters leased, Stevens & Co. will have a sure home for Saint Joan when it gets to Manhattan in April, will have no trouble booking its riskier productions. More important, if Joan's tour (weekly cost: $23,000) pays its way, its producers plan to send at least two or three plays on pre-Broadway tours each year...
...plowed back before taxes are computed, thus giving oilmen a tax edge over most other industries. As a result, in two years the stocks of some of the biggest & soundest U.S. companies (Standard of Indiana, Socony, Texas Co., Shell, etc.) have more than doubled in value, while riskier Canadian "penny" oil stocks have made incredible climbs (one stock rose 4,700%, from 23? to $11.25). Many a wary trader thinks the speculation in stocks has gone too far. But, while almost every other industry is worried about its sales and profits, the oil industry (whose profits climbed 21% last year...