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...fall, it seemed the market had been an accurate barometer; industrial production had also started up with a rush. In the next six months, the Dow industrials climbed 30 points in one of the sharpest rises in the market's history, without once suffering a major break. Some diehard bears still quibbled that the market was not actually as high as the Dow-Jones indexes* indicated, because many stocks not on the indexes had not broken their 1946 highs. But to many analysts this only meant that the bull market was still in its first phase...
...Pretti met his sharpest test. As he carried his case of Coke into one restaurant, a wine-drinking taxi driver called out: "There comes the licorice water!" Pretti indignantly reeled off a long list of Coke ingredients which had nothing to do with licorice. "Have you," Pretti asked, "ever tasted Coca-Cola?" Said the taxi driver: "Once-and never again." Said Pretti: "Ah, but you must try Coca-Cola in the wine." He produced two bottles and poured them into a glass of Chianti. Two of the customers tasted the mixture. They approved of it cautiously. As Pretti left they...
Pankey is the Deacons' sparkplug. Small for a basketball player, he keeps constantly under the feet of opposing giants and is too fast to be brushed off. Offensively, Pankey is one of the League's sharpest shooters. He won the first Kirkland-Lowell game with a last second 20-foot basket...
...interpretation of doctrine came from the church's sharpest intellectual spearhead, Rome's official Jesuit fortnightly, Civilta Cattolica. The lead article in its current issue is an attack by fiery-eyed, black-haired Jesuit Father Antonio Messineo on a bill recently introduced in the Italian Chamber of Deputies that would legalize conscientious objection. Writes Father Messineo...
...spit-and-scratch school of society reporting in the nation's capital, two of the sharpest-clawed are Austine McDonnell Cassini Hearst of the Washington Times-Herald and Evelyn Peyton Gordon March of the Washington Daily News...