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ALEXANDER L. GUTERMA won a round in his battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission when it rescinded the ban on trading in Bon Ami, a Guterma company. The SEC continued its suspension of F. L. Jacobs, another Guterma corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Nobody knew much about Alexander L. Guterma when he arrived in Wall Street five years ago. But he quickly showed himself such an expert in frenzied finance that he got control of F. L. Jacobs Co. (auto parts maker), Bon Ami Co. (scouring powder), Hal Roach Studios (Gale Storm Show), and the Mutual Broadcasting System. Last December Guterma's empire began to crumble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Alexander the Great | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...York Stock Exchange suspended trading in Jacobs stock for failure to file financial statements. Last week SEC suspended over-the-counter trading in Jacobs and Bon Ami. When space was booked in Guterma's name on a plane to Ankara, SEC quickly obtained a warrant for his arrest, said that losses to investors would reach many millions. Picked up with him was a longtime financial associate, Robert J. Eveleigh, who was found in a Manhattan call girls' apartment fortnight ago when police raided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Alexander the Great | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...millions of women voters in this country I will concede that John Kennedy is a cute kid, if they will, in turn, grant that a high AMI (appeal to the maternal instinct) does not sufficiently qualify a man for the presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...started out six years ago as a street musician, quickly became a provincial bistro favorite as a singer of folk songs, Negro spirituals (among which he includes "Me voilàa, me voilaà, old vieux Joe") and religious songs of his own composition. His record of Seigneur, Mon Ami-which might be translated roughly as "Somebody up there likes me"-sold 45,000 copies, a big sale for France. Today Father Duval ranks as one of France's leading entertainers, is mobbed by autograph-seeking teen-agers wherever he goes, is considering recitals in Western Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swinging Priests | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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