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...outside experts went right on making their own computations by simply comparing the actual tonnage with capacity, thus forced the institute to start releasing the capacity figure again. Now the institute has a solution for that problem. Normally, in January, it publishes the increase in capacity during the past year, a computation that is made only once a year. Next month the institute will not release a new capacity figure, thus hopes that outsiders will not be able to make their own calculations...
...customers. Though ready to indulge rich whims, he has been known to kill a good sale if he thinks a purchase is not suitable, e.g., a mink coat for a college freshman. As a result, Neiman-Marcus is a respected name in stylish circles around the world. In the past decade Neiman-Marcus' sales have nearly doubled, will hit $41 million this year. The original store in downtown Dallas has branched into a suburban Dallas store and one in Houston. Last week Stanley Marcus announced plans for a new $2,000,000 store to be completed...
EUROPEAN STOCK MARKETS are losing their bullishness. Value of stock on the Milan Exchange has declined 40% in past four months. Paris Exchange has slipped 10% since its 1960 high last August; London has retreated 12% from record peak. Only West German market is still strong, is expected to finish the year with stocks 29% above 1959. One result of the decline: less U.S. money and gold will go abroad...
...other hand, why look a gift bear in the mouth? With the holiday season at hand, the book suggests some redoubtable opportunities for Christmasmanship-what better gift for the child who has everything? And for just any old reader with two years of Latin somewhere in his past and Junior's copy of Winnie-the-Pooh in his other hand, the Lenard translation will readily provide a week or so of verbal fun and fireside games-a contribution to nursery literature that can only be compared to E. L. Kerney's translation of Alice in Wonderland into Esperanto...
PORTRAIT OF MAX, by S. N. Behrman. British Perfectionist Max Beerbohm, novelist, drama critic, cheerfully malicious caricaturist, let the 20th century wash past him during more than four decades of retirement in Italy. Edwardian dandy to the end, coolly satisfied with his own limitations and common-sensibly appalled by people who did not recognize theirs, he delighted in civilized talk of the kind that Playwright Behrman expertly caught...