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...first big batch of second-quarter earnings came out last week, it looked as if overall quarterly results would echo an old refrain: sales up, profits down. Of the first 130 companies to report, most could point to a slightly higher gross, but the average net was down 7% from 1951. Nevertheless, the stock market found no cause for alarm in the reports. The Dow-Jones industrial average, having forged ahead to a new 22-year high a week before, edged still higher to 279.26 before easing...
...Bethesda Naval Hospital, after an operation for infected sinuses, Senator Joseph McCarthy got an astringent convalescent order from his doctor: rest his voice and "refrain from all political utterances for a period of at least six weeks...
...Midwesterner's built-in drive to make his city tops. With Lascoe, aloofness was out. He slapped backs all around town, learned to speak fluent German. Because Pforzheimers kowtowed to him as "Herr Gouverneur," he put an ad in the local newspapers: "My title is Mr. Lascoe. Please refrain from use of the word Governor...
Fine Print. In Los Angeles, Percy T. Martin willed life incomes of $300 a month to two women he identified as "friends," but stipulated that they remain unmarried, and refrain from "living with any man out of wedlock, or making any use of tobacco or alcoholic beverages or liquors...
James R. Reynolds, Assistant to the President, yesterday announced that the Corporation decided Monday to refrain from authorizing any fund drive now for the construction of a hockey rind at the University...