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...considerable degree on the actual life of the show's star, Helen Morgan (1900-41), who told Kern and Hammerstein about her early years as a chanteuse in a German-style beer-garden named Adeline's. (A film biography of Morgan's life was made in 1957, starring Ann Blyth and Paul Newman...
...Benjamin Blyth Limner BEGS to inform the Public that he has opened a House near the City Coffee-House, for the performance of Limning in Oil, Crayons and miniature...
...advent had been ominously labeled "Mayday" (TIME, April 28). Yet Mayday came and went with few surprises. Some firms raised commissions to small investors. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the industry's leader, increased rates an average of 3% on orders of up to $5,000. But Blyth Eastman Dillon held commissions at present levels for small investors, trimmed them by 8% or more on larger deals for institutional clients. Bargain brokers popped up; one advertised commission cuts of 75% on "all but the smallest trades...
...When Blyth & Co. Inc., the brokerage firm for which he worked as a $25,000-a-year portfolio manager and drug-industry analyst, was merged in 1972 with Eastman Dillon Union Securities Inc., Hannafin lost his job. Like thousands of other Wall Street refugees, he is seeking work and failing to find it as more securities firms cut their staffs, merge or fold...
Other brokerages also are scrambling for survival. Last month, Blyth Eastman Dillon broke off merger talks with Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, then promptly closed ten of its 55 branch offices and fired 350 employees. Hayden Stone Inc. and Shearson, Hammill are preparing for a merger by Labor Day; reports are circulating on the Street that as many as 1,000 employees will be laid off. Perhaps 100 other firms are talking merger, and the best guess as to how many more Big Board brokerages will merge or liquidate by the end of the year...