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Among the measurements of economic outlook anxiously awaited by U.S. businessmen are the inventory and sales figures of U.S. manufacturers. Last week the Commerce Department issued the latest figures-and set off a spate of speculation about their meaning...
...Obsolete. Saudek Associates started at the top. Most of its members were with the Ford Foundation's Omni bus, founded their own firm three years ago when Ford pulled out, ran the show successfully for NBC. This season, NBC decided that the spate of specials would make the program obsolete. Rarely has a network been so wrong. Last week No. 1 Associate Robert Saudek quietly released the news that Omnibus will return to the air next season...
...prime measures of the U.S. economy's staying power in the current boom is capital spending. Last week as a spate of new plant and equipment spending was announced by major U.S. companies, Government economists estimated that capital outlays in the first quarter rose substantially from the $34 billion a year annual rate of 1959's last quarter, will average $37 billion for the year as a whole and hit $40 billion in the last quarter, a new record...
...first life peer ever to be so elevated from outside the British Isles. If he ever comes to the Isles, Casey will be entitled to take a seat in the House of Lords. In England, meanwhile, Elizabeth, expecting her third child imminently, was the subject of a spate of delicious prattle. It seems that lightweight Novelist Barbara (Love Is the Enemy) Cartland had visited the exclusive Mayfair beauty salon of Mrs. Elizabeth Forsythe, who also enjoys the Queen's custom. Barbara told a group of housewives "in confidence" (during a lecture entitled "You Can Be Beautiful") what Mrs. Forsythe...
...fellow musicians, Mahler was misunderstood by his public and despised as a martinet by the singers and players who performed under his baton. Now, in the centennial year of his birth, the musical world is taking a fresh look at the last of the great Austrian symphonists. A spate of anniversary performances was inaugurated last week by the New York Philharmonic, playing Mahler's Fifth Symphony under Guest Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos...