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...final figures just about matched the rosiest predictions: U.S. magazines collectively recorded their best financial year ever in 1964. The Publishers Information Bureau reported last week a combined magazine advertising revenue of $997 million-up 7% from 1963, which held the previous record. Among the leading revenue producers...
...world, though it still has no hospital of its own and wants none-its surgeons are satisfied to treat patients in the available nearby hospitals. It has not only survived the death of its founders (the brothers Mayo both died in 1939), but has grown far beyond their rosiest expectations. There is still an almost magical healing power in the Mayo name, but this is a bonus for the trusting patient. The treatment he gets is solidly grounded in the best of medical knowledge and practice...
...news squads have scored impressive beats on RTF. In 1959 Europe Number One scooped RTF by six hours with on-the-scene recordings of the Frejus Dam break. During last summer's peasant sitdown strike in Brittany, RTF prudently quoted Lc Figaro, a Parisian daily that put the rosiest possible complexion on the strike; Number One's mikes picked up, live, the protests of the Breton peasants themselves...
From the Federal Reserve Board in Washington last week came the rosiest FRB comment yet on the comeback from the recession. Said the FRB: "Rapid recovery in economy activity continued in August. Industrial and construction activity, nonfarm employment and consumer buying rose further." The FRB index of industrial production rose three points in August, to 137% of the 1947-49 average, has regained more than half of the recession loss. Furthermore, the FRB found that it had underestimated the production climb in June and July, had to revise those figures upward...
...best reading of the winter comes when the postman delivers the spring catalogue of Jackson & Perkins Co., the world's biggest rose growers. This spring the J. & P. catalogue displayed more than 120 different varieties of roses in all floral colors except blue, breathlessly described them in the rosiest of prose. Among the new roses to dream over were Aida ("displays the same majestic grandeur and dark beauty as its namesake"), Golden Fleece ("performs with all the grace and beauty of a flirting ballerina") and Spartan ("no race of men ever existed as strong and vigorous as the Spartans...