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...fateful day Lounger Bernstein was persuaded by his wife to paper a wall. "It was easy," says he. "They make wallpaper with glue on the back, and all you do is dip the stuff in water and roll it on." Bernstein soon bought himself a $12.75 home-carpentry set and nailed up a shelf. "Did a good job, too." In quick order, he reversed a bothersome living-room door, made a plywood table for his son's electric-train set, laid a tile floor in the bathroom. "Great stuff-it's got suction cups on the bottom...
...dinner. But even if I'm pitching pennies, I want to beat the cursing life out of you. If I lose a big ball game, sure, I'll shake your hand afterwards, but I'm bleeding inside." He snorted. "Good sportsmanship is so much sheep dip. Good sports get that way because they have so much practice losing...
...years ago, Poet McGinley began to dip into history ("I have a theory," she says, "that people cannot appreciate history until they reach 40"). As she read, she encountered saints and their works. Though raised a Roman Catholic, she knew little about them and began to read more and more until, she says, "like everyone else who reads about the saints, I fell madly in love with them." The result of Phyllis McGinley's love affair was a series of deft verses on some of the saints (see opposite page}, which she titled "Saints Without Tears" and assembled...
World Surpluses. In Italy, Japan, Belgium and Luxembourg, production has also been declining, probably less because of the U.S. dip than because of the fact that shortages have turned into surpluses around the world. Italy reached its peak production last October and Japan in December. However, Italy is expecting 1954 to be one of its better postwar years, and her trade deficit in January and February was trimmed to $149 million from $189 million a year ago. While unemployment in Japan is still low, the gloomy foreign-trade picture (1953 deficit: $313 million) has been darkened by a 20% decrease...
...this situation, the tightening of cred it had a "more potent effect than was gen erally expected," the President's report granted. When business began to dip, the Administration saw the trend, and promptly reversed its credit policy. The report called the year's economic movement a "minor contraction." It was the kind of postwar economic shift that occurred in 1949, but it was less severe...