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...Nothing, by James Hanley. An ac complished English novelist's brittle, sav age account of the guilt-edged insecurity of three lives...
...WATERS, by Jack Thomas Leahy (241 pp. Knopf; $4), recalls that, as the world's last frontiers recede, so does the myth of the noble savage. People who are called savage are all too anxious to become civilized: people who are civilized have shown that the sav age left in them is anything but noble. In his first novel, the author seeks to restore the old image and picks the Northwest Indians as his noble savages; they prove too pathetic to offer an alternative to civilization, only a mild reproach...
...Relaxed Federal Home Loan Bank Board regulations to permit insured sav-ings-and-loan associations to spread more of their loanable funds over a larger geographical area. Formerly, the associations were limited mostly to mortgages on homes within 50 miles from their main office; new rules will allow them to put 20% of their funds into conventional loans made by other insured associations anywhere in the U.S., provided the original lender keeps half interest...
...credit pinch grows tighter, U.S. bankers are working harder than ever before to build up a new pool of capital from the humble sav ings account. While U.S. consumers have been saving between 6% and 7% of their income after taxes in the past few years, the savings fell considerably short of the amount bankers estimate they need to replenish their lendable funds. In an all-out effort to pull in more savings, the bankers are revolutionizing U.S. banking methods. Gone is the old-fashioned banker of granite mien and glassy-eyed stare...
...hold impersonally for the good of the paper. In 1936, J. R. Scott, the sole survivor, divested himself of the trusteeship and formed a trust, whose duty was and is to turn any dividends back into the development of the paper. The trustees draw no salary and have no sav whatever in the policy of the paper, which is the prerogative of the editor...