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Chunky Fan Dale Blasingame, 49, a moderately successful grape broker, glanced around the stands at Fresno, Calif.'s Roosevelt High one day last spring and grinned happily. Scattered among the gum-chewing, chattering teenagers were 30 older but equally familiar figures. To Dale Blasingame, those men meant money in the bank. Every one was a major league scout, and every one was sizing up Dale's 6-ft. 2-in., 185-lb., 17year-old son Wade. "I'm in the business of analyzing values," says Blasingame, "and I had a good idea of what the market...
Martin H. O'Brien, 35, is a former insurance broker with a wife and six children; George C. Randol, 30, was a copy editor on the San Francisco Chronicle; the other four are 26-year-olds-ex-Paratrooper Thomas R. Keene, Graduate Student (in philosophy) Roger E. Armstrong. Youth Counselor Joseph E. Fresques, High School Teacher Thomas P. Grace. Each of them plans to work in two neighboring parishes, giving in each a series of 24 lectures four times a year, as well as following up on converts and getting to know the parishes and their people...
From the Wastebasket. Sometimes in passages, sometimes in no more than a phrase, the book contains the entire Lowry life and legend. He was the rebel son of a prosperous English cotton-broker father, and he shipped to the Far East as a deck hand at 17 after reading O'Neill's Moon of the Caribbees. The publisher lost the sea novel, Ultramarine, that Lowry wrote about his voyage, and Lowry rewrote the book from notes fished out of a Cambridge roommate's wastebasket. After graduating with honors in English, he drifted to Hollywood, New York...
...stock specialists, charged with maintaining a "fair and orderly'' market in the stocks assigned to them, the Res were both brokers executing floor orders for other brokers, and traders on their own account. In their role of brokers' broker, they acquired, like all specialists, a treasury of inside information-a situation that has led some critics to charge all specialists with automatic conflict of interest...
...further digging, SEC investigators agreed that something indeed was fishy. They filed a brief charging the Res with "deliberate and gross" violations of law that did "many millions of dollars of harm" to thousands of stockholders, urged the SEC to expel both men from the exchange and revoke their broker-dealer licenses. After further hearings, the SEC can also refer the case to the Justice Department, for criminal prosecution...