Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fowles did have one complaint: discomfort from a plastic tube leading out from his liver through an opening in the abdominal wall. His surgeon had installed it as a substitute bile duct during the operation, believing that continued cancer growth would require it. Fowles angrily agitated for its removal. Some 18 months after his first operation, the doctors agreed to "correct" the tube with surgery-and found all signs of cancer gone. "There wasn't a trace," they say. "We looked everywhere." Fifteen months later, there is still no evidence of cancer...
...slipped a bit before the close, thus technically set no new record, since the closing prices are the ones that count. Three times in the last two years, stocks have marched up to the high set in April 1956, then backed away from it. At week's end Wall Streeters were split on whether the average would burst through and set a new record, or whether the market would slide into the "technical correction" that many an expert has expected for weeks...
Much of the reason for the rise in the averages is improving business prospects and the fear of inflation, which has driven money from bonds into stocks. This has caused big investors to buy so heavily in such blue chips as Du Pont and U.S. Steel that Wall Streeters have started to complain about the "shortage" in these stocks. More and more institutions and pension funds are also going into the market, usually by buying blue chips. Last week trustees for the Bell System's $2.6 billion employees' fund announced that the fund would buy stocks...
Shall I tell you of the other ones? The squat little man with the crewcut who sold his soul and pen to an Elsie's wall mural for three blue punch cards. Or the intense young man with thinning hair and a changing voice who reads Wallace Stevens to a saxophone solo. Or the boy from the Bronx who writes Spanish poetry...
Looking for an angel to back them in starting a new company, Thornton went to Wall Street's Lehman Bros. Lehman