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With the rise of computer punch-card accounting and the decline of the clerk's pen-entry ledger, company comptrollers have relaxed in a new atmosphere of mechanical morality. They have been confident that neither false entry nor ink eradicator could juggle the electronic accounts. But last week, Walston & Co., one of Wall Street's largest brokerage firms, found that the computer is no more honest than the hand that feeds it. In eight years, Walston Vice President and Computer Specialist Frank B. Haderer, 50, had stolen more than $260,000 from the electronic till, to become...
Part of the drop was undoubtedly seasonal. January is at best a "peculiar month," said Walston & Co.'s Edmund Tabell. "By the middle of the month, the market generally has taken care of the reinvestment demand generated by year-end tax selling and the market just sits back and relaxes." But that was not the only reason for the market's shivers. With short-term Government securities paying 5%, institutional investors were tempted to put somewhat more of their new money into bonds and less into stocks...
...Nick Adams, Dean Stockwell gave the impression that he had learned The Method at Hotchkiss, but Dane Clark and Robert Middleton were smooth and competent as the killers, and so was Ray Walston as the frightened owner of the lunchroom in which the killers reveal their plot. Beyond the brief Hemingway dialogue, the show was distinguished only by the Swedish fighter. In a flashback to a Chicago gym, where he was coached in the art of taking a dive, and in the scene from the original, in which he decided that he is "through with all that running" from death...
Music from Shubert Alley (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Six decades of Broadway, recalled in the songs that sparkled in Shubert Alley musicals. Andy Williams is host. Guest stars include Alfred Drake, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Doretta Morrow, Lisa Kirk, Ray Walston...
Ellery Queen (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Rerun of This Murder Comes to You Live, a standard whodunit with a special appeal: this time a TV panelist is murdered on the air. Involved in the happy crime: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ben Hecht, Ray Walston and Buster Crabbe. Color...