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...that some London banks had put money into Ira Haupt, and others into British companies that contracted for large amounts of oil from Allied. In Manhattan the brokerage house of J. R. Williston & Beane, which lost heavily in its dealings with Allied, had to be merged into the stronger Walston & Co. And in Chicago, authorities refused an operating license to Oak Crest Refining Corp., a venture in which DeAngelis is one-third owner, on grounds that one of the officers was associated with oth er enterprises that were infiltrated by gangsters...
...Favorite Martian (CBS) has a stopper of a girl too. She is Kathy Kersh, Miss Rheingold of 1962, and even a Martian can appreciate her mellow malt and hops. The show itself is really an animated cartoon that uses live people, chiefly Ray Walston as a professor of anthropology from one of the numerous universities on Mars, lately arrived by saucer. He disappears at whim like Topper, and he sprouts antenna horns that boing amusingly. Younger cats should...
...with a quick across-the-board tax cut." Some key barometers of business released last week-industrial production, housing starts, retail sales, new orders-showed small rises for July. This news cheered the stock market, but the President's speech also helped by clearing the air. Said Walston & Co. Market Analyst Edmund Tabell: "If there's one thing the market hates, it's uncertainty." Wall Streeters took heart at the promise (not quite a certainty) of a long-term tax cut next year...
After Britain's small but noisy neo-Nazi movement provoked a Trafalgar Square riot with anti-Semitic speeches two weeks ago, a pro-Labor country squire, Lord Walston, wrote the London Observer an angry letter calling for extensive laws to curb excesses in public speech. Replying a week later, mischievous Satirist Evelyn Waugh, 59, penned his own modest proposal to the lord. Wrote Waugh: "May I commend to him a group whose interests, I am sure, lie near his heart: his own peers? . . . They have, like the Jews, been the objects of frequent, atrocious attack. They are now held...
...spirit got little encouragement from many of last week's economic indicators (see THE NATION). More and more, investors were showing themselves disappointed in the sluggishness of the recovery and no longer hopeful that it will blossom into a boom or superboom. "Best guess at this point," wrote Walston & Co. Market Analyst Anthony Tabell. "is that it will be fairly close to two years before we have the start of another major bull market...