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...Yorker pages. Another article, threading its way through the usual glossy ads (as exemplified by the fox jacket for $6,795 at Bloomingdale's, the eight-day chronometer for $17,350 at Tiffany), stretched for 59 interminable New Yorker pages. Drew was allowed to indulge in that slackest kind of writing, the day-by-day journal. Anyone not intensely interested in politics could hardly be expected to go the distance...
...catching the wind, in a visual poem to flight. Educational TV? A documentary on aeronautics? No, just a two-minute spot plugging Eastern Airlines' flight to Miami. In any year it would have been a tasteful, artful job of the soft sell, but in this, television's slackest season, the Eastern Airlines commercial looked like a masterwork...
...play itself turns slackest toward the end: where there might be a more ominous light in the sky, a more urgent orchestration to the story, there are the merest stage doings about Sally's tweedy British mother. Though never dull, I Am a Camera suffers from too much of Sally's own live-in-the-moment disorder...
...Best business spot recently has been auto sales, with 1940's first two months up about 30% from 1939. But January and February are the year's slackest sales period, and even good February sales were not able to keep pace with February production of 409,667 cars and trucks (down 12.6% from 1939 peak). By March 1 dealers had over 460,000 cars on their floors, and at the current rate may have nearly 550,000 units on hand April 1 (400,000 is considered about par for that date...
...newsstand sale days, Friday is the biggest, Monday the slackest...
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