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...wonder if anyone has ever replied to President Joseph Fitzsimmons' quote of Don Quixote with one by Mark Twain: "Behold, the fool saith, 'Put not all thine eggs in the one basket' - which is but a manner of saying, 'Scatter your money and your attention,' but the wise man saith, 'Put all your eggs in the one basket and - watch that basket...
Sick? The Douglas humor more often than not is of the "sick" variety-or, as a colleague put it, "his jokes need Blue Cross." One chapter is called "India, or Put the Cobra Back in the Basket, Mother -There'll Be No Show Tonight." Another begins: "Early this morning, somewhere in between my orange juice and my No. 1 concubine, I got to thinking about Toynbee Doob . . . He had an extra pinkie on each hand. When Toynbee drank tea he was the politest bastard in the county...
...handles five different mutual funds. The biggest: Investors Mutual, Inc., a balanced fund with assets of $1.4 billion. Scholarly I.D.S. President Joseph Fitzsimmons likes to quote Don Quixote to explain his investment philosophy (" 'Tis the part of a wise man not to venture all his eggs in one basket"), but he keeps all his sales eggs in one basket by having I.D.S. sell all five funds itself, a practice unique among investment companies. ¶ The Wellington Fund, of Philadelphia, is a balanced fund with assets of $925 million and 275,000 stockholders. Launched in 1929, it is still...
There was one index on the downgrade. Happily, it was for consumer food prices. Dun & Bradstreet's shopping basket of 31 basic foods (one pound of each) dropped to $6.13 wholesale, off 2? for the week and 44? below last year's recession level...
...your reporter had simply asked me about it, he would have learned that the Council regularly receives various advertising gimmicks along with its official correspondence, and that the advertising usually is filed in the waste-paper basket...