Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three papers, the World-Telegram is the only one hit hard enough by the circulation drop to have cut its advertising rates this summer; its sales fell 19%. compared with 16.2% for the Journal-American and 18.2% for the tabloid Post (circ. 350,814). The World-Telly has brightened its own financial section with new features, e.g., columns on Wall Street gossip, market letters and mutual funds, and switched Charles G. Haskell from his job as assistant managing editor, to run the business and financial pages. A spokesman denied that the changes were inspired by the Journal's plans...
Steelmakers got up out of their summer slowdown and pushed operations to 82.7% of capacity. For the rest of the year mills are expected to pour about 85% of capacity, may well crack 1955's alltime production record of 117 million tons. Said Iron Age: "The looked-for upturn in steel is under way, and will reach a peak in late November or early December...
Department stores happily met a late-summer buying rush. Sales in August's last week jumped 5% above the preceding year. For the whole month, New York City area stores rang up 7% more sales than in last year's record August. And in the Labor Day week, stores were crowded with shoppers, notably at Macy's in Manhattan. Said Macy's Chairman Jack I. Straus: "In view of the continuing high levels of employment and consumer income throughout the nation, we anticipate fall sales to be about 6% ahead of last year...
...NEXT SUMMER'S SWIMSUITS for women will feature startlingly low-cut backs (down to the waist) contrasted with demure, high necks to cover up in front. In first trade showings, California swimwear makers are avoiding the new Parisian tubular look (TIME, Sept. 9), instead will draw in waists with belts...
...Last summer a U.S. writer named Jack Kerouac went to Paris, was unable to find a room or anyone to talk to. and went home after a week. "Paris." he says, "rejected me." Now he spends a lot of time in his mother's house in Orlando, Fla., painting (on cheap paper, with a mixture of house paint and glue) and writing (sometimes in much the same style). Having learned that the Left Bank ''lost generation" era is no more, he writes about the "beat generation"-and "beat," he says, really stands for "beatific...