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...near the mill, that's a different thing. So last month, in delirium on his deathbed at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, Altman told his son and daughter about the milk cans. They thought it was a little strange, but nevertheless, after a decent interval, they decided to dig around a little. By the end of last week they had unearthed three of them, stuffed with...
Some firms regard their reputation for providing a sustained yield as so valuable that they dig deep into their reserves when earnings are too low to cover the outlay. This is all right, says Harvard Business School Economist John Lintner, "when the earnings decline is pretty surely temporary. Management will be very often serving stockholders best by maintaining dividend payments and protecting the price of the stock." But some industries have persisted too long in this rearguard action-and steel is one of them. While earnings dropped year after year and the industry lagged in modernization, steelmen kept rewarding stockholders...
...been for a castoff television aerial, John Pennel, 23, might be a ditchdigger today. He used to dig holes for fun on his father's farm in Tennessee. "I left holes all over the farm," he says. "I don't know why I did it. I just had this urge." Then he found an old roof top TV aerial and, using it as a sort of vaulting pole, began to go up instead of down. One leap led to another, and in 1959 he went to Northeast Louisiana State College on a pole-vaulting scholarship (room, board, tuition...
...dig that kind of croonin', chum," sloshed Frank Sinatra, 45, in High Society's drunk scene. "You must be one of the newer fellas," riposted Bing Crosby, 59. That was in 1956. Since then the newer fella has formed his own record company and that kind of croonin' now sounds with the ring of new-minted coin. So in his first long-term record contract since Decca days seven years ago, Bing will do a five-year hitch on Frankie's Reprise label. Beamed Sinatra after a recording session: "With Crosby...
...Doris bubbles her way to the pinnacle of soapy success, Hubby Garner begins to go down the drain out of pure jealousy. The final gurgle comes when -unknown to him-the Happy Soap folks dig a swimming pool for Doris in the backyard where the driveway used to be. That night, whump! splosh! Garner goes down with his convertible as the sound track plays a snatch of sinking-of-the-Titanic music...