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...station that does not offer stamps, assiduously fills her books to redeem for Christmas presents. Though he himself could bring home the same premiums at wholesale cost, his wife's habit delights the Scots heart of Mac MacDonald, for whom premiums are a way of life. A rotund, robust optimist, MacDonald started his business career with a small Dayton firm selling luggage as contest prizes for salesmen. By expanding the company's premium line and concentrating on Detroit's automakers (who sometimes spend as much as $4,000,000 on a sales incentive campaign), MacDonald built sales...
Maria Livanos (Viola) and Peter Gesell (Toby Belch) and more robust comedy; Miss Livanos turns in her most flexible performance to date and all but overcomes the cloying cuteness of her voice with a newfound range of inflections and gestures...
...acquired this by using his name, his robust good looks (6 ft. 1 in.. 200 lbs.) and pleasant, though somewhat plodding, platform style to win election to the Ohio legislature in 1954. There his interests were broad (he served on the finance, industry, labor, judiciary, welfare and insurance committees), and he sponsored nearly 40 successful bills. They ranged from securing higher interest on public funds deposited in banks to giving epileptics the right to get drivers' licenses. He was re-elected three times and became majority leader of the house. Says he of himself and his father...
Died. Eugene Speicher, 79, peerless U.S. portraitist, a robust, orderly New Yorker who imposed his own stamp of warm-hued repose-at its best in his pinky luminous nudes-on all his subjects from Katharine Cornell as Candida to country bumpkins; after a long illness; in Woodstock, N.Y., where in 1907 he founded an art colony with his close friend, Artist George Bellows...
...fast, but not so fast as before. The real increase in the West German gross national product simmered down from a spectacular 8.8% in 1960 to ''only" 5.3% last year and an expected 4% this year. This is partly a reflection of mounting competition from the newly robust economies of France and Italy (TIME. Jan. 12). which are slicing into Germany's export markets. With exports of capital goods off slightly this year. German steel production has dropped 10%. At the same time, wage raises have increased demands for imports, with the result that West Germany this...