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...wrote the letter in the Radcliffe, Class of '75's freshmen registration envelope, advising class members to "restrain the baser instincts of their menfolk...
Captain Peter Baser will hold down the number one slot as he will try to take the sting out of his losses against Princeton and at the Men's Team Championships. Bill Kaplan will follow at the number two post. Dick Cashin rounds out the top three as he tries to replicate his win against the Tigers' third man at Penn...
...Baser Metal. Paul Erdman is an exception. Although he is not the James Joyce of high finance, he is not Jacqueline Susann either. His plots and characters tend to be simple, but he combines a zest for the intricate poetry of the big deal with the ability and cheerful willingness to explain it. His first novel, the bestselling The Billion Dollar Sure Thing, straightened out the mysterious alchemy of the international gold market. It earned added interest from Erdman himself, a financier and economist who wrote the book while a resident in the Basel prison. The Swiss government insisted that...
...Silver Bears deals in a baser metal, but it is just as entertaining and instructive as the first novel. Although names and places have been somewhat altered, the plot is built on the manic-depressive 1968 fluctuations in the price of silver that made millions for a few and skinned thousands who were convinced that silver had nowhere...
...reach and richness with a mind and manner unsurpassed by any soprano singing opera today. Horne also proves, to the surprise of many, that she can act -not as well as she can sing, but well enough. As Carmen, her face is a catty catalogue of all the baser emotions. Her hands are a dithyrambic dialogue, as when she plays the castanets with her arms around Jose's neck (a genuine feat, considering the size of Tenor James McCracken). Horne may not so much dance as insinuate dance, and may need a gallant helping hand in order...