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...indexes by which students of U. S. business measure its temperature are many & various, range from freight carloadings to horoscopes. Last week they got a new one. Flashy, white-haired, doughnut-dunking* Albert Andrew McVittie, 59, ex-showman, Denver restaurateur, president of the National Restaurant Association, had studied the pencil scribblings on restaurant tablecloths, found they were in creasing. McVittie conclusion: business is better. His reason: "When people write on tablecloths, they generally do so in terms of figures. . . . The general opinion is that deals are closed in business offices, but . . . nearly half of them are consummated ... in restaurants...
...playing has little inwardness and no depth, but precisely because it is showy and spirited, it goes over big. An accomplished showman, Evans disdains jazz effects; instead, he scores Shakespeare richly for full orchestra, achieves a Stokowski-like splendor of sound...
...Temple Hoyne with those who find them so. Hoyne's "things" are not a stack of private slants on life, but the common denominators of American living, about which he knows plenty. A fourth-generation Chicagoan, Hoyne has followed the ropes as sports editor, financial editor, city editor, showman, broker, lawyer, Kentucky colonel. On Pilgrimage, his crudely but aptly illustrated book of verses, is as amateurish in its format and some of its contents as a home-made dog house. Within it lives a spirit that has dignified the human race since Aesop and before: the spirit that says...
...Wottami bid, wottami bid for this pretty li'l heifer? Who'll start it 25, 25, 25. . . ." They bid up to $97 a head; Buzz got $57,000 for the lot; the folks headed home-men, women and children-tired but tickled after a great day at Showman Buzz Hoover's combination rodeo, barbecue, songfest and livestock sale...
...showman before he thought of This Ain't Our War, Jay C. proved his feeling for box office several years ago. To push Hormel's chile con carne, he cooked up an expensive musical show called the "Hormel Chile-Beaners," sent it barnstorming through Minnesota. It salted away Jay C.'s right to the title of the Billy Rose of the meat packers...