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...Black. Some sleepy viewers garbled it a bit, asked for The Black and Blue or "that book by Stan Hall," but one publisher alone supplied 2,600 copies to dealers in four days without slaking the demand. Said a book buyer: "I'd wager that more copies of Stendhal have been sold in New York this week than in Stendhal's lifetime...
...involved in their entertainment, and since producer Mike Todd obviously set out to please everybody, the picture even has a plot. Adapted by humorist S. J. Perelman from a novel by Jules Verne, the story relates the adventures of a very correct 19th century English gentleman who, on a wager, sets out to circle the globe in eighty days. So he packs up a couple of shirts and his valet and proceeds by train, sailing ship, balloon, elephant, windpropelled railroad car, and various other exotic means of transportation. Somewhere in India a love interest enters in the shape...
...after-tax estate of more than $8,000,000 when he died in 1930. About 90% of it went to Paul Getty's mother, $1,000 to charity and only $500,000 to Getty because the father disapproved of his marital escapades. Nevertheless, Getty persuaded his mother to wager the family's stake on the chance of becoming an oil major-leaguer by buying into oil companies. He took over the Pacific Western Oil Corp., then liquidated its $12 million investment portfolio, sold some of its leases, and borrowed heavily to raise cash for bigger game. Quietly...
...foreign policy was like the house policy of the gambling casino: cover all bets, wager everybody he is wrong and depend on the constant and modest profit of the house odds inherent in the dice or deck or wheel. Our new one seems to be the house manager's asking his syndicate to let the bouncer carry a pistol...
...Heavy Wager. The big if in the industry is whether an upsurge in auto buying will start another scramble for steel, and a shortage like last year's. That will not be known for sure until spring, when automakers learn whether expectations for a 6,500,000-car year are being met. Prospects for meeting that target looked good last week. Ford Motor Co. said that in the first ten days of January it sold 59% more Fords and 30% more Lincolns than the like period last year, the best year-opening period for Fords in history. Steelmen themselves...