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Dates: during 1960-1960
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JOBLESS RISE totaled 200,000 in October instead of taking usual seasonal drop of 200,000 in month. Employment fell by 300,000, instead of rising by normal seasonal increase of 400,000. Number of jobless hit 6.4% of the work force on a seasonally adjusted basis, up from 5.7% in Sep-tember-highest level since October 1958. Total employment of 67.5 million was still record for month...
...Hicks. This performance so impressed J. P. Morgan & Co. that the banking firm asked Avery to take over an ailing Montgomery Ward in 1931. Avery quickly put his rough brand of rugged individualism to work at Ward, in three years turned a $9,000,000 loss into a $9,000,000 profit. Avery's method was to cut costs, introduce higher-priced lines of merchandise for the mail-order chain, because "We no longer depend on hicks and yokels. We sell more than overalls and manure-proof shoes...
...shabby attire and said to his wife: "I think we ought to give Camille a little more money." Corot had never sold a painting in his life, and though he had exhibited at the Salon, it was not until after his death that the range of his work became known. Last week the Art Institute of Chicago had on display the largest Corot exhibition ever shown in the U.S.-223 works.by a man who would have been astonished to learn that 85 years after his death, people were still talking about...
...figure paintings turned to the wall and referred to them deprecatingly as "my monkeys." Of his contemporary, Painter Eugene Delacroix, he would say: "He is an eagle, and I am only a lark." But for all his modesty, Corot was a single-minded man. He flatly refused to work in his father's drapery shop, rejected the fiancee his parents selected for him, even refused to marry at all. All that Corot ever really wanted to do was paint...
Martha was the first to go astray, if she thought Freud was going to cash the full 100,000 kisses. Work came first, she became "beloved old dear," and as his family grew, Freud tooled off on solitary holidays to Italy. He was better at fathering (six children) than at being a father. At 17, Daughter Sophie sprang her surprise engagement on him, and Freud only inquired with middle-class prudence about the young man's financial condition. When this same daughter died of pneumonia eight years later, he bore the tragedy with a typically stoic detachment he himself...