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...struggling through the waist-high drifts toward the restaurant, fell dead of a heart attack. Two Amish farmers returned to their truck, brought back a load of bologna and cheese, sold part of it to adults, gave the rest to the children. The stares grew harder, the words sharper...
...with only 381,000 new cars delivered-down 22.6% from December. Ford Motor Co., after record 1957 sales of $5.8 billion (with profits of $282 million), was off an estimated 30%; Chrysler Corp., with record 1957 sales of $3.5 billion (and profits of $120 million), tumbled an even sharper 34%, dropping back to 14% of the market. General Motors' sales dropped only 11%, and G.M. jumped up to 56% of the market v. 46% last year. Nevertheless, the industry's overall sales were so far behind production that dealers' stocks rose...
...highly does Getty value performance that he does not trust anyone to do a good job who does not have a moneyed stake in his work. Says Getty: "I think having your own money in the business you are running makes you a lot sharper. Stockholders in my companies at least have the consolation of knowing that if they lose money, I will lose a lot more...
...language like herring through a cargo net. Keller's solution: analysis by music instead of by words. His criticism of Mozart's String Quartet in D Minor (K. 421) broadcast last week from Hamburg, convincingly demonstrated that a few snatches of music, pointedly juxtaposed, can make a sharper comment on a composition than a column of critical prose...
...through Asia earlier this year and said: "It has the look of having been made with love." So it had. The Lady from Philadelphia faithfully recorded the rich, heart-stirring artistry of the Negro woman who began as a Philadelphia choir singer; at the same time it illustrated how sharper than a diplomat's wile can be the sweet song of a woman of great talent and simple dignity. Contralto Anderson acknowledged an honorary degree from Seoul's Ewha Women's University with the emotion-charged Negro spiritual, He's Got the Whole World...