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...mother Mrs. Cora DeBoyer, a strong-willed woman who had been married at least five times. Sedgwick employed the Rev. William E. Barton, 67, a Boston minister who had written books about Lincoln, to study the letters...
...scholar of sorts, Barton found the letters too pat to be credible. But when he met Minor in Los Angeles, his doubts were undermined by her charm. Lonely after the death of his wife, Barton, while on his train journey home, wrote a warm letter inviting her to visit him in Foxboro, Mass., and to "come and sleep under my pines and see my Lincoln material and swim in my little lake." He added: "Tell your mother I made love to you and hope to do it again...
...fine job and deserves it." But Greenspan has lots of support in the White House because of past service to the Administration. Says one admirer: "He's an independent but on the Reagan team nonetheless, a perfect compromise choice." He is also a popular candidate among moneymen. Says Barton Biggs, the chief investment officer of Morgan Stanley: "If they pick Greenspan, they will pick the second best guy to Volcker...
...other market experts, including Morgan Stanley's chief portfolio strategist, Barton Biggs, have been warning that many high-tech issues are overrated. Some are selling at prices as high as 50 times their earnings; the average price for the 500 stocks in Standard & Poor's Index is about 13 times earnings. Says Zeikel: "It's true that some high-tech stocks have gotten ahead of themselves." But he argues that the overall high-tech trend is up and that the funds will ride up with...
...anyone within earshot that he studied the craft for 15 years. On-camera, he has the charm and unthreatening masculinity of a slightly more serious Burt Reynolds. Others are getting on-the-job training. "I try as hard as I can, but I see where I need improvement," says Barton. Still others, like the wooden Scalia, appear to have graduated from the Ali MacGraw School of Thespian Arts. "I would have preferred it if Scalia had had some acting experience," admits Thurm, who brought him into television. "But we weren't asking him to play King Lear." Bo Derek...