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Ominous Buffalo. Nobody but the professional astrologers ever know just when Thí-gya-min is coming or with what^ omens. If he carries a water jar, rains will be abundant during the coming year; if he bears a lantern and wears shoes, there will be a hot summer. This year, according to the astrologers, he arrived wearing a green dress, carrying a flower in one hand, a flower pot in the other and riding on a buffalo. That meant, of course, that cattle and crops would be badly damaged...
...days last week, Wall Street' brokers thought that the long-ailing stock market had got the tonic it needed. On th first day after the reduction in margin requirements from 75% to 50% (TIME, Apri 4), trading on the New York Stock Ex change hit 1,800,000 shares and the Dow Jones industrial averages jumped 2.4 points. It was the biggest volume since November, best gain since October...
...th Annual A.M.C. Downhill at Pinkham Notch...
...Editor Nichols makes $35,000 a year, and spends only seven months a year in his Manhattan office. The rest of the time he travels, on expense account, around the U.S. and Europe, picking up ideas. At home, on Park Avenue, he and his Czech-born wife Marie Thérèse, who speaks seven languages, entertain a babbling stream of foreign authors and artists, who are also tapped for ideas...
Montreal's Théátre du Gesu was sold out at every performance last week. The darling of the French Canadian theater, an impish comedian named Fridolin (real name: Gratien Gélinas) was on the stage in his new play...