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...best in satire of cultured English society, and superb acting combines to make this the best of the four pieces. Indeed the production and acting are on an unusually high level throughout the four stories and it is only in analysis that the picture seems to sag a bit in the middle. The general effect, as one leaves the theater, is that "the very old number," as Maugham now likes to call himself, and everyone else who has had anything to do with "Quartet" have turned out a highly entertaining group of "one-acts...
Last week, at a time when U.S. retailers were feeling a sag in sales (average: 4%), Penney's was still booming. In the first five months this year, its sales of $305 million were 5% higher than in 1948. Penney's was completing three new stores (in Houston, Sault Sainte Marie, Mich, and Midvale, Utah), expanding its store in Albuquerque, opening another one in Oklahoma City. Next January it will also open a big new store in Springfield, Mass., its 1,608th outlet...
Last year, when shirt sales began to sag, Phillips proved that he knew how to find customers in a buyers' market. More & more men were wearing ties with fancy, outlandish patterns that clashed with old-style striped shirts. Phillips switched three of Phillips-Jones's eleven plants to full production of pastel-colored shirts which would go well with loud ties...
Wile Hollywood continues to sweat out a sag in movie attendance, Harvard's Ivy Films Productions seems likely to wipe off tripods, wind up the cameras, and blandly start production this summer on its second film...
Nobody expected a pickup soon. In spite of the Ford strike, new cars were rolling out of Detroit at a rate of more than 5,000,000 a year. Some new car dealers were feeling a sag in their own sales (Kaiser-Frazer Corp. this week reported a $5.8 million loss in the first quarter). They were once more offering bigger trade-in allowances than they could get for the used cars. By summer's end, some of 1949's new cars would be showing up on used-car lots, to add to the glut. Both...