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Then came the dramatic showdown between the President and U.S. Steel. It is a Wall Street axiom that the market always finds a ready reason for a selling wave-and this time the accepted one is Kennedy's offensive against steel. Says U.C.L.A. Economist Theodore Andersen: "Kennedy's criticism of steel triggered the market decline, but the gun had to be loaded-poor yields, better returns elsewhere, the lack of a need of a hedge against price inflation...
...Carl Andersen. Early this year, William Morris, one of Estes' Neiman-Marcus trio, wrote Estes a letter suggesting that Andersen, a member of the House subcommittee on agricultural appropriations, would be a "good Republican contact" in Congress, and that it might be a "good investment" to help him out of a financial pinch. Shortly afterward, Morris took Andersen down to Pecos to talk to Estes...
Then, and again on another occasion in Washington, Estes gave Andersen money -totaling $4,000 or $5,000 or $5,500 according to various versions-for stock in an Andersen-owned coal mine. After this transaction came to light, Andersen insisted that Estes was only making a business investment in the mine. But that seemed unconvincing, since Estes never even bothered to get any stock certificates from Andersen...
Silent Mirror. Though the book is overlong and exaggeratedly dramatic, it is full of surprising incidents. When Jenny stayed with friends in Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen would come around to tell stories to the children of the house, a pretext for seeing her. He fell in love with her. He wrote The Emperor's Nightingale for her. When she was cold toward him, he wrote The Snow Queen. When he begged her to marry him, she silently handed him a mirror. That night, he wrote The Ugly Duckling. (Author Schultz offers a modified version of this famous anecdote...
...discouraging to watch sensitive direction and powerful photography founder upon a wretched script. The carefully focused composition and precise lighting give enormous force to a few scenes, particularly one in an open boat and another inside the wreck of an old schooner. And Harriet Andersen's acting is consistently stunning...