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Billy Liar, by Keith Waterhouse. The highly comic tale of a Yorkshire mortician's clerk who, Dick Whittington fashion, dreams of London but misplaces his cat and never gets there...
...case in a picaresque novel, the goings-on become a little hard to swallow. Disbelief can, in Coleridge's phrase, be suspended willingly, but it should not be hung by the neck until dead. The fault is not really important. With his portrayal of Billy, a Dick Whittington who misplaces his cat and never makes it to London. Author Waterhouse has created one of the year's most entertaining characters...
Tight money is already doing it. "Now it will be impossible for business to accumulate excessive inventories." says Vice President Loren M. Whittington of Cleveland's Society National Bank. "Business has to get money for inventory and capital spending by borrowing. But banks are pretty well loaned up." Inventory buying has already begun to level off. In 1959's first half, manufacturers boosted inventories by a near-record $2.9 billion, raised the total to $52.1 billion, fast approaching the alltime high of $54.2 billion in mid-1957. But in July, inventories rose by only $100 million. The steel...
...Samuel Maurice McAshan Jr., 54, moved up from vice president to president of the world's biggest cotton dealer, Anderson, Clayton & Co. of Houston, replacing Harmon Whittington, who retired under pressure at 59. McAshan, an Anderson, Clayton regular since he left Princeton ('27), is described by Founder Will Clayton, his father-in-law, as having "the quickest mind and greatest curiosity of anyone I've encountered." The shift marks a return to power of courtly, fiercely competitive Will Clayton, 79, onetime U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, who retired as chairman of Anderson, Clayton in 1950-only...
BANNING E. WHITTINGTON...