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Proxmire also cited criticism of the Fed in the Economic Report of the - President issued two weeks ago, which was prepared under the direction of Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. The report contends that overly tight Fed policies resulting in a rise in interest rates last year were partly responsible for the October stock-market crash...
...President's opposition to any sort of tax boost. But he and other insiders were already monitoring the stock market apprehensively. The previous Friday, White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker had pulled together an informal group consisting of himself, the Treasury Secretary, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Beryl Sprinkel, Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan and White House Aide Kenneth Duberstein. They met with the President after the market had closed with a then record loss of 108.36 points (shortly to be vastly eclipsed). Their message: basic economic indicators were good, but the markets were very nervous...
Lovell speculates reasonably, though conventionally, that much of Markham's adult adventuring was an attempt to find a man as admirable as her father. He was an English ex-army officer named Charles Baldwin Clutterbuck, who, separated from his wife, reared Beryl in Kenya when she was a child. It was from him that she learned horses and an extreme form of self-reliance...
...question has been raised whether Markham's memoir could have been her own work, given her lack of formal schooling. Biographer Lovell's convincing answer is yes. The scholar and legendary white hunter Denys Finch Hatton, Blixen's great love and one of Beryl's many, had helped Markham make up much of the education she had missed. Though her good friend, the aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, strongly influenced her writing, chronology shows that the work could not have been his. Her third husband, a failed writer named Raoul Schumacher, did some useful editing, but despite embittered...
Gail Godwin' s enthralling A Southern Family portrays a tragic loss of ideals and energies. -- The astonishing life of Beryl Markham...