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...Shucks," they say, "that man has never won the Hambletonian." Last week in Du Quoin, Ill., Stan failed again to win trotting's most prestigious race. Guess who beat him? His wife...
...Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier...
...problem, said the magazine, is the "tremendous disparity" between point changes in the Dow-Jones average and the dollars-and-cents meaning of those changes. The Dow-Jones index is calculated by totaling the per-share value of 30 blue-chip industrial stocks (among them: A.T. &T., Du Pont, General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel), then dividing the sum by a frequently changed divisor-now 2.278-to erase the effect of stock splits and dividends. Thus figured, the Dow-Jones average of those 30 stocks stood at 888.82 at week's end, but their average market price...
...Ronson now makes 25% of its sales in labor-saving devices. As competition in the small-appliance market increases, prices are coming down. General Electric recently reduced the price of its most popular electric knife from $22.95 to $18.98 (discount houses have cut it even further, to $12.44), and Du Pont has come out with a toothbrush...
...probably beyond hope of improvement. The catch-up reader should then resolve to shun all the authors he feels obliged to read. If his conscience impels him toward Marlowe, he should settle for Harlow; if his secret ambition is to get through all of Dumas, he should try a Du Maurier. For the habitual nonreader to leap into Finnegans Wake or Wittgenstein is almost as unseemly and possibly as dangerous as it is for a middle-aged stockbroker to demonstrate push-ups at a party. By the same token, the would-be title-dropper should stay firmly away from...