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Patriotic Puff. Tobacco monopolies often become involved in politics and social-welfare plans. Austria helps to support its war victims by granting them licenses to sell state-made tobacco products. Communist governments value their tobacco trusts as both a prime source of income and a useful sponge to soak up cash that the restless people cannot otherwise spend because of the shortages of consumer goods. Red Bulgaria counts upon its golden leaf for 10% of its export income...
...took his golden trumpet-blew-and the Wall didn't come tumbling down. Never mind. It was a mighty blast anyway. Cheering throngs of East Berliners, from the youthful hip to the Party drip, shelled out a capitalistic 15 to 25 marks ($3.75 to $6.25) apiece just to soak up all that jazz. Playing to packed houses on his four-week trip behind the Iron Curtain, Satchmo neatly muted the inevitable questions on race and politics ("Some of my best friends are Southern whites," he grinned) and gave the Volk encores and encores of Blueberry Hill and Hello, Dolly...
...teakettle warmth of Irish family life simmers comfortably until Director Jack Cardiff plunges into the eye of street fights during the Transport Strike and the bloody Easter Rising of 1916, catching the awful impact of thudding billy clubs, of bullets and bombs and sudden death, letting his camera soak up the slaughter in pitiless detail...
...good bet. Bryan is not a vivid writer, but-the character of Wilkinson aside-he is a sound one. His scenes do not sting, but the reader sees them clearly. Time after time in the novel, there is a feeling that if Wilkinson would only go home and soak his head, the party might still develop into something. Bryan's writing suggests the early work of Louis Auchincloss-competent, intelligent, flawed occasionally by pomposity. This year's Harper Prize was given, clearly, for novels that Bryan has not yet written...
...biggest reason that institutions are so stuffed with money to lend is a dwindling demand for mortgage loans on new housing, which soak up more money every year than any other form of investment. Mortgage costs are falling too. New home mortgages in November carried an average interest of 5.75% v. 5.82% a year earlier. While banks can and will switch part of the new flood of savings into other kinds of loans-some of them riskier than usual-S. & L.s are far more locked into the mortgage field. Says Eugene M. Mortlock. president of Manhattan's First Federal...