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...When not at the front, at his headquarters in Hanoi or Saigon, the routine is about the same. He sits at a huge, black-lacquered desk in Saigon's Norodom Palace; a map of the front stands behind him, and a grandfather clock ticks away. He stays up till 3 or 4 a.m. reading field reports, then issues his orders for the next day and turns in. He is up again at 10 or 11, after receiving advisers while still in bed. He is a meticulous dresser (his clothes come from Lanvin in Paris), and he has been known...
...first half were 17.3% above the 1950 period. The whole market is still full of good earning stocks which have had no major rise. Many stocks (e.g., Foster Wheeler, White Motor) are still selling for less than the actual cash (net working capital) in the company's till. The very "exclusiveness" of the market so far makes bulls proclaim that the "real" bull market cannot begin until whole broad new segments of stocks come in for heavy play. For example, the rails, which have led the final phase of many bull markets, are still far below their February peaks...
Roommate (haggard after working till 5): Gee, I hope I can pass that exam...
Roommate (haggard after working till 5): Gee, I hope I can pass that exam...
...Opened Till . . . In Tonawanda, N.Y., at the annual outing of the Business and Civic Association, five local businessmen won the door prizes: cemetery plots...