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...second-period spurt led by Pete Kelley gave the varsity basketball team a come-from-behind victory over Columbia Friday, 75 to 67. The second half of the Crimson's weekend was less successful; the quintet lost to Cornell in Ithaca, 82 to 75, Saturday night...
Behind the dividend spurt are a pair of cheering facts about corporate profits: 1) they slipped less during the recent recession than in any other since World War II, and 2) they have snapped back better than in any other postwar recovery. From an annual rate of $47.4 billion in first-quarter 1960, pre-tax profits slid steadily to $40 billion in first-quarter 1961. Virtually all that loss came in the manufacturing sector. But with manufacturing leading the way, the rate went back up to $45.5 billion in second-quarter 1961, then moved on to $47 billion...
...close look at inflation in quite a few countries. I have seen it upset governments, take the bread out of the mouths of workers, the old, the helpless, undermine the operations of business. So I continue to class it as a dangerous fever, which gives the patient a temporary spurt but quickly saps his strength...
...more because it was based on the shallow observation that both he and Utrillo painted city streets. Both also drank. Yet that deprecatory comparison was about the measure of Heldt's renown at the time of his death seven years ago. This week Heldt is enjoying a sudden spurt of fame as the key figure of a new, nonabstract "Berlin School." The critical applause comes from a show in Wiesbaden of the collection of rich Machine-tool Maker Kurt Brandes...
...Gross National Product will not show a defense-fed spurt until 1961's fourth quarter. It will be several weeks before procurement orders roll out, several months before big-scale production begins. Accordingly, Government economists are holding to their previous estimates that the G.N.P. will reach an annual rate of $520 billion in the third quarter of this year. But they have now revised their fourth-quarter projections from $530 billion to $535 billion...