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...upswing, Bernard Baruch bagged one of his first fortunes by bearishly selling short in Amalgamated Copper in 1901, and Joseph P. Kennedy earned more than $1,000,000 by short-selling in 1929-30. Among the other famous bears who got into the honey in the Depression were Tom Bragg and "Sell 'em Ben" Smith. One day Smith picked up a phone to make a call, but Bragg bellowed: "Wait a minute-I'm short of Telephone. Don't give them any business now." Smith shot back: "Aw, I'm shorting Telephone myself, Tom. After...
...afternoon editions did word get out that one of the three men aboard was craggy, bespectacled Brigadier General Joseph Warren Stilwell Jr., 54, son of World War IIs Burma campaign hero, "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, and since early last year commander of U.S. Special Forces training, headquartered at Fort Bragg...
...American general wounded in Viet Nam when enemy ground fire riddled a chopper he was riding. An inveterate skydiver, he returned to the U.S. only to suffer fractures of the back, pelvis and both heels when his parachute failed to open properly during a free-fall jump at Fort Bragg...
...Grimes, 45, operator of a one-man West Coast air ferry service, was delivering a plane that a California winery had recently sold to the government of Thailand. Stilwell planned to go along as far as Hawaii, then return to the mainland. Taking a three-day pass from Fort Bragg, he went to San Francisco, first to deliver a couple of speeches and then to see off his son, Joe III, 27, an Army captain who was leaving for duty in Viet...
...there's no time for sergeanting. Nominally assigned to the Fort Bragg, N.C., public information office, Sadler tours the country as a flesh-and-blood singing recruiting poster, and performs before big audiences from Atlantic City to San Francisco. He plays some commercial engagements, but only on leave, and he has earmarked part of his income to a scholarship fund for the children of veterans...