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Show March 5, 1965 SIGNPOST Pasre 4 Diamonds Girl's Best Friend? Latest Survey Shows Stocks by Jafk SuUlemyre "Diamonds may be a girls best friend," as we seem to have beard somewhere, but Mrs. Anne Jennings Johnson, smart looking 36-year-old lady investment broker thinks the boys will be surprised to discover how cozy the gentler sex is getting with those blue-chip stocks they once thought were something to wear around the neck. "Since we don't have figures to show how many women own diamonds," says the lady-customer's lady of the New York firm A. G. Edwards and Sons, 'it may well be that the icy jewels are already trailing securities in girlish esteem." In 1952, says Mrs. Johnson, a little more than three million women owned shares of stock, and only ten years later well over eight million women constituted the majority (51 per cent) of all the American share-owners.With rosy .forecasts for 1965 despite "poverty pockets" and the much-publicized "war on poverty," says this investment feminist, a million more women will learn the art of deciphering the ticker tape this year. And in another decade, Mrs. Johnson assures us, the weaker sex will own two-thirds of the nation's corporate business. Such a trend will doubtless change the aura of the stockbrokers' offices, and who knows, there may come a day when they may come to resemble tea shoppes or beauty salons and feature free day nurseries. Even now, says Broker Johnson, brokerage firms are concerned with special attention and services to attract Continued on page 7 Perfect for Campus Wear Whether you want an ADLER SOCK That goes UP over the knee or DOWN by the ankle They are available in All colors, styles and sizes . . . at Y 0 Roy Shopping Center n o for Campus Wear Alta Life white Shape-up Open every.mte tiUpcnvFriday till 8. p.m. nn rr WE HAVE IT tIEHLER ' BinOH A ' - , n v i -i " v , K f f r i " ; ; ' ; f , I I I- J 1 i 'i "1 " I I T - i 1 J f 1 t" ' ' L - f : V i - 4 RLJ3 SePAflATe fir ttOOSla tACOtfr Tie young bucks of America go clean-white-sock in the Adler stretch of the century: new ShapeX. Kick up your status at Adler's 100th birthday in the first cotton crew ever spiralled around Spandex to absorb all pressure from all ten toes. The first sock to go to " any length to please you. So giving it takes on all sizes 9 to 14. ShapeX: in whit una great coiora. uei iean-wniie-oocK mrougn ana tnrougn. f"iWl rut all your feet in bhapeX; Stay in shape for just one buck. WHERE ADLER SOX GOT THEIR START The Red Carpet Shop BUHHueft-BirioMra |