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...prizes. The top Aussies might then turn professional, but Australia was so deep in first-rank tennis players that it hardly made a difference; next year's wave would be just as devastating. Last week Australia had to be content with a one-man wave and a wavelet-second-seeded Roy Emerson and fifth-seeded Ken Fletcher. Emerson won at Forest Hills back in 1961 but lost this year at Wimbledon...
Last week, as a roundabout result of these international developments, a lively New Wavelet of cinematic creativity was rolling across the U.S. and gathering momentum by the moment. The beatnik film, Pull My Daisy, which runs only 29 minutes but seems considerably longer, is a sort of celluloid-muffled Howl. Financed (for $20,000) by a couple of Manhattan brokers, it features a few well-known beat bards (Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky) in a "free improvisation" on a scene from an unproduced play by Jack (On the Road) Kerouac. The beatniks stumble around a pad on Manhattan...
When Juan Terry Trippe got Pan American Airways into the air in 1927 he knew every wrinkle in its flying equipment (a lone trimotored Fokker), every part in his stockroom, every wavelet in the go-mile mail route between Key West and Havana. In his eyes was the dreamy gleam of the empire builder, behind his disarming smile a grim determination...
...year against a $7,102,000 deficit for 1932. Fortnight ago it declared a 15? common dividend, its first since January 1932. Phelps-Dodge announced a 25? extra dividend in February and May. American Smelting & Refining Co. began paying arrears on its 7% preferred last December. This wavelet of prosperity was not specifically started by the copper code which President Roosevelt signed last April, but the code has effectively consolidated the industry's gains. Its chief provisions were: 1) a sales agency to act as a clearing house for domestic sales; 2) monthly sales quotas of 20,500 tons...
...last hotheads stormed the barricaded International Settlement, but in such small numbers that the international police quelled them with a little jostling. The first wavelet had broken harmlessly, but all the sea of China welled behind...