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...winner, Idlewild was awash with people. Countless acquaintances suddenly remembered how they had helped her in the past, and crowded close to share her success. The big city, which had offered Althea's parents a cramped railroad flat in which to raise their children, honored her with a ticker-tape parade. And people breathlessly wanted to know how it had felt to shake hands with Queen Elizabeth at Wimbledon and what they had said to each other (The Queen: "It was a very enjoyable match, but you must have been very hot on the court." Althea: "I hope...
...break in the stock market at the news of President Eisenhower's stomach upset last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) lasted no longer than the President's brief illness. The first sketchy reports touched off a brief, orderly selling wave: the Exchange ticker ran late, and stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average slipped 4.91 points in an hour. But when the White House issued a reassuring bulletin, stocks turned quickly around, made up all but a 1.87-point fraction of the day's loss, then climbed steadily higher on each successive day. At week...
...newer, supersonic B58 Hustler bomber. Though Wilson's statement did nothing more than reflect the routine Pentagon procedure of constantly reappraising air needs, the Wall Street Journal blew it up into a long scare story headlined: PENTAGON WEIGHS FUTURE OF B-525 . . . and the Dow-Jones ticker carried a bulletin about the possible replacement of the B-52. In little more than an hour, Boeing dropped 3½ points from 52, reached a low of 47½ before the Air Force hastily announced that Boeing had firm orders for 502 B-52 bombers. At week's end, still...
...computer has even learned to adjust to the ticker's habit of dropping digits when it falls behind the trading pace on the floor, can recognize and signal mistakes in quotations in a matter of seconds. The system is so swift that it would be possible to average all the 1,500 shares listed on the exchange, on an hourly basis. But Standard & Poor's feels that the new index will do just as well, since the stocks not in the index are little traded, have little effect on the market...
This is a novel about people with beer tastes and champagne incomes. They are the reverse of Oscar Wilde's cynics, for they know the value of everything and the price of almost nothing. They spout dialogue like a Wall Street high-speed ticker, but the quotations mean less. At their best they are faulty reproductions of two old masters, Fitzgerald and Marquand. At their worst they share what 27-year-old Novelist Flood (whose 1953 novel. Love Is a Bridge, was much overpraised) seems to share with many another young writer these days-tired blood...