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...York City restaurant patrons who charge their meals to American Express got something extra last week: a thank-you note. Amex is contributing 3 cents from each bill to Citymeals-on-Wheels, a program that delivers food to the elderly and homebound. To encourage customers to contribute directly toward more charity meals, Amex provided postage-paid envelopes for donations using check or charge. During the month of November, the company expects to collect more than 1.6 million three-penny chit donations, enough for 10,000 meals-on- wheels, at the more than 3,500 New York City restaurants that accept...
...same time, the number of small individual investors who own stock has been steadily shrinking, and the Boesky scandal may well accelerate that trend. Says Bill Kasten, an account executive in the Chicago offices of the E.F. Hutton investment firm: "Smaller investors now think that they're just crumbs in the pie, that they have no control." Agrees Robert Nichols, president of Los Angeles-based RNC Capital Management: "If we don't restore the public's confidence, the public is going to exit and not come back...
...then," observes Oscar Boldt, president of the Boldt Holding Corp., "and when they unloaded the elephants, there was excitement, real excitement, the sort of excitement you could feed off for months." Today some kids in Appleton still feed off the excitement evoked by the name Houdini. Thirteen-year-old Bill Brehm, an aspiring magician, is one of them. "I'd like to know how he did some of his tricks," confides Brehm, who has started practicing Houdini-inspired handcuff escapes. "Like when he was handcuffed and got into a box and was thrown over the side of a bridge into...
...celebrated citizen, dedicating its new downtown plaza in his honor. The house where the Weiss family used to live stood just to one side, notes William A. Brehm Jr., a card-carrying magician who is also the city's director of planning and development. "Our plaza," beams Brehm, young Bill's father, "is really Houdini's backyard. It's where he was stringing up clotheslines to practice as an acrobat...
Particular quarterbacks move teams beyond the scrimmage line, as the best coaches know. San Francisco's Bill Walsh could make a serviceable quarterback out of an usher, but no one can be taught to lift a team the way Joe Montana raised the 49ers 55 days after back surgery. "Armies work hard for Lancelot," Guard Randy Cross says, "harder for King Arthur." At 38, oft- deposed Raider Jim Plunkett keeps coming back to reign in Los Angeles...