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Headed by the unbeaten first doubles pair of Ned Weld and Bob Bowditch, a four-man contingent from the varsity tennis team has entered the New England Intercollegiate championship tournament at M.I.T. today, tomorrow and Sunday. The Crimson is considered the second-best team in the tournament, behind defending champion Yale...
General Electric's first-quarter profits were up 7% over last year, announced Chairman Ralph J. Cordiner, to 60? a share v. 56? in 1958. Ford Motor Co. reported the best first-quarter and the second-best quarter in its history, rang up consolidated earnings of $2.46 a share v. 55? last year. Du Font's President Crawford H. Greenewalt told stockholders that the company's first-quarter earnings increased "perhaps 70%" on a 22% rise in sales. Said Greenewalt: "In 1959, sales will be substantially ahead of those realized in 1958 and will perhaps establish...
Ford Motor Co. last week wheeled out a racy earnings report that was a prime example of the fast snapback scored by many a recession-hit corporation. In the last three months of 1958. Ford earned $111.9 million or $2.05 a share, the second-best fourth quarter in its history (best: 1955). This wiped out the nine-month loss, gave to the company a respectable net for the year of $95.7 million or $1.75 a share...
...Being a Girl), or lead to fun (Don't Marry Me). But it gets few assists from the lyrics, and the libretto gains nothing from its Joseph Fields brand of gag. Perhaps the right comparison for the show is not with first-flight Rodgers and Hammerstein but with second-best Rodgers and Hart. Such work might well be less smoothly professional than Flower Drum Song, but it was more individualized. If it sagged, it would suddenly soar; if there was nothing notable for the nightingale, there was something delightful for the mockingbird. The Hart wit waltzed to a Rodgers...
...goals, his teammates did not fare too well in the rankings. Wing Larry Ekpebu tied 11 others with two scores for 11th place, and the Aga Khan's single tally earned him a tie for 23rd. The efforts of goalie Tom Bagnoli paced the varsity to the League's second-best defensive record...