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...Booster, and danced not the Charleston but a fandango along the gutters, in the brothels, bistros and mansards of Montparnasse. In telling about it all. he establishes the hardly original thesis that being broke is very hard work and that panhandling-working as cut-rate gigolo, or becoming valet-pimp to a parsimonious Parsee-can involve more shame and chicanery than the whole career of a Babbitt or a Cash McCall...
Last week's policy switch also represents a sharp about-face for William McChesney Martin, 54, the shrewd, conservative chairman of the FRB. During World War II and the early postwar years, the Fed was little more than the Treasury's valet, pegging bond prices to keep interest charges-and the cost of the war-low for the Government. Though the policy was fine for wartime, in peace it made the Fed, as one chairman, Marriner Eccles, complained, "an engine of inflation." Finally in 1951 the Fed rebelled, refusing to support the price of Treasury bonds...
...took over as chairman, with the task of making "bills preferably" stick. Since the Eisenhower Administration viewed the Fed as the primary means of reining inflation, he had little trouble. But early in the campaign Kennedy made plain that he thought the Fed had swung from its earlier valet role too far toward an independent, negative role in monetary control. He wanted more Fed-Treasury cooperation, especially as he viewed the Fed as only one means of controlling credit...
Childless, Berman and his wife now move in the center of a large professional family that includes three types of manager, a lawyer, an advance man, two secretaries, two flacks and a valet (to try to keep those sleeves straight). Although awed by his income, what he really wants is to be an actor, and he vows he will yet conquer Broadway. "My insecurity goes on and on and on," he says. "If 5,000 people were laughing and one didn't like me, it would bother me. And I can't relax. If I knock...
...moviegoers, who last saw Cantinflas as David Niven's valet in Around the World in 80 Days (TIME, Oct. 29, 1956), can now see him again in Pepe, a picture that noisily invites comparison with Mike Todd's Oscar-copping travelogue, and severely suffers by the comparison. Like Todd, Producer-Director George Sidney (Pal Joey) signed up Cantinflas and a couple of second-magnitude stars (Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones) for the major parts, then went shopping for big-name bargains, bought up more than two dozen* of them (reported price: a Rolls a role), shot a scene...