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On the Upswing. The impact of Schulz's introspective, sophisticated humor is magnified, perhaps, by its novelty in an entertainment medium that has traditionally gone in for improbable adventure and is now up to its ears in the cold war world. Detective Dick Tracy, who once stalked gangsters on...
Thanks largely to these new strips, the whole comics industry-300 syndicated strips and panels in 1,700 newspapers-is pulling itself out of the doldrums. In the 1950s the comics lost both readers and advertisers to television. Now that TV's appeal has begun to tarnish, the comics...
The consumer spends his extra income only when he is in a good mood-and his good mood in 1964 was one of the year's happiest events for the U.S. The consumer has been spending 93? of every dollar that he earns, and is unafraid about borrowing to...
"For Shame, for Shame." Others were not so resigned. "For shame, for shame!" cried Congressman Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee, who went on to predict "a marked slowdown in our economic growth" as a result of the hike. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council complained that the move...
How to Start. One reason for the boom is the stimulus of the U.S. economy's upswing, which has greatly increased bank earnings. In addition, the sprawl of the suburbs and the westward population drift have created a need for expanded lending and checking-account services that cannot be...