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...Hollywood, during a brief slip into the meandering footprints of his late convivial father, Actor John Barrymore Jr., 25, was nabbed for being drunk and disturbing the peace at 1 a.m. while tiffing with wife Cara in his parked car. He drew a $100 fine and a 90-day jail stretch that was suspended provided he spends his next three weekends in jail. Said Junior later: "I tried some rum concoctions and they tasted like punch. They didn't act that way. I'm through with liquor...
...industry is encouraging the wide use of fur on things other than coats. There are mink-trimmed golf tees (three for $1), a $2,045 sofa bed with pillows upholstered in mink, mink-covered highball coasters (for hostesses who wish to be "dripping in mink"), and even a telephone slip cover of mink...
...boom eased in the U.S., it was also easing around the world, bringing a drop in the demand for U.S. goods. The record dollar value of U.S. exports ($19.5 billion in 1957) and imports ($12.7 billion) may slip less than 5% in 1958. One of the major battles of 1958 will be over U.S. tariff walls and reciprocal trade pacts, with traders insisting that the U.S. does not buy enough and protectionists insisting that it buys too much. Yet in 1957, an encouraging answer to critics who say the U.S. does not trade enough was the case of foreign automakers...
...first eleven months, is laying off about 5,000 production workers, principally at its Detroit-area plants. (But it hired workers in Dallas, where sales are surging.) Chrysler, which captured more than 20% of the nation's auto trade during the first eleven months of this year, may slip to 16% of industry output in December; last week it put its Dodge division on a four-day week. As a result of the cutbacks, the industry's output for December is 6.8% under production originally planned for the month...
...head down. In Texas, beef on the hoof is selling for 14¾? a Ib. v. 9⅓½?a year ago; cattle raisers are holding cows off market to replenish their drought-thinned herds, but it will take them several years to do so. Result: beef output will slip from 83 Ibs. per capita this year to 81 Ibs. in 1958, only...