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...Bankhead has finished out of the money in three consecutive starts, while Stevens is the sponsor of seven losers in his last nine attempts. This is the sort of coldly statistical handicapping that in 14 months has made TI the racing form of the angels, has encouraged Publisher Seymour Vail to go one step further with his offer to book bets on theater nags. For as little as $50 (plus brokerage fee of up to 10%), his new, SEC-approved First Theater Investing Service, Inc. will sell chunks of any of 35 upcoming shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Angels' Racing Form | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...Vail, a former researcher for Music Corp. of America, believes that ''investors must be safeguarded in this field just as they are in the stock market." Two years ago he began a massive analysis of Broadway past performances, divided plays into four categories depending upon the records of their participants and principals since 1956. In his top class-Group IV-Vail feels that 70% of all entries will make a profit, while he foresees a payoff for only 65% in Group III. 15% in Group II and only 6% in Group I ventures. On his form sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Angels' Racing Form | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...right It is a matter of confidence in the process of government versus with the parliamentary procedure this sense, Asanuma should not be a martyr of the Socialist cause. he is a martyr of the constitutional of democracy in Japan. Before comfortable silence might again vail under the tyranny of the left right, those who have once learn a lesson of such a tyranny should forth and dedicate themselves arduous task of maintaining a Parliamentary democracy in Japan

Author: By Tatsuo Arima and Akira Iriye, S | Title: Parliamentarism in Japan: Can it Survive? | 10/22/1960 | See Source »

Despite this disdain for modern bureaucratic technique, Andorra's government rocked along smoothly enough until one day in December 1958, when somebody left $168,000-two-thirds of the entire Andorran treasury-lying in a cupboard drawer in the Casa de la Vail. Next day the cupboard was bare. Also missing was Ramon Riberaygua, 36, scion of a leading family and secretary of the Council of the Valleys, who on frequent visits to Spain had developed an un-Andorran taste for luxury. He kept a mistress in Barcelona and enjoyed paying big tips at the Hotel Ritz to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDORRA: Prodigal Returns | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...week, as he lounged around home at provisional liberty, Andorra's elders informally let drop their intentions: Riberaygua will probably go scot-free. After all. the Riberaygua family had almost gone bankrupt paying back what Ramon had stolen. Anyway, the four-cell jail in the Casa de la Vail might lose its appeal for tourists if it were cluttered up with a prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDORRA: Prodigal Returns | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

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