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...favorite paradox was: "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person; give him a mask and he will tell you the truth." But there are rare crises when the mask is torn away and truth spills from the naked soul. The mask of England's sharpest wit and most industrious idler fell away in Reading Gaol, after the decade's most scandalous trial had resulted in his conviction for pederasty. The Wilde of this epistolary confession, here published for the first time in full (though it has been published previously in heavily edited versions...
...gave their all in our fight for freedom in the market place." It was a reminder to the delegates at the National Congress of Petroleum Retailers meeting that 60,000 service station operators have bitten the dust in the Great Gasoline Price War, which threatens to be the sharpest and costliest ever...
...remains 35.9? in New York City). Business is so competitive that last year 37% of the nation's 220,000 service stations changed hands or closed down, the highest turnover rate in U.S. retailing. In Chicago, where the battle is sharpest, half of the stations changed hands. The war has hit the major oil companies where it hurts most: the profits of Gulf, Sun, Indiana Standard and Sinclair were down by 9% to 24% in this year's first half...
Some of the sharpest sales declines were in transportation. Budd Co., the Philadelphia trainmaker, dropped 28% in sales, and Douglas Aircraft 33%. And as in 1960, 24 of the nation's biggest industrial companies actually operated at a loss. General Dynamics, which lost a massive $143 million on its jet-transport debacle (TIME, Sept. 15 et seq.), led the red-ink list. It was followed by J.I. Case (loss: $32 million), Yuba Consolidated ($14 million), Ling-Temco-Vought ($13 million), Underwood ($9 million) and Hearst ($9 million). Of these seven heavy losers, all but Ling-Temco-Vought had also...
...Cepeda is batting .330, leads the National League in hits (with 77), ranks second in home runs (with 15) and runs batted in (with 55). The other Latins are almost as impressive. In his second year up, Puerto Rico's Jose Pagan ranks among the league's sharpest shortstops. Pitcher Juan Marichal, from the Dominican Republic, already has eight victories to his credit...