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...reliable is this tip? Joe McDonald, a broker at the Cambridge firm of Moseley, Hallgarten, Estabrook and Weeden expresses some skepticism. "It doesn't have a tremendous following right now, but it might come back. It sounds too black-and-white...
Most people use stamps to mail letters. Marc Rousso trades them for expensive houses, yachts and cars. A Miami Beach philatelic broker, Rousso, 35, says that official catalogs value the rare stamps that he has traded since 1984 at $45 million. Now he is taking the art of stamp trading into the computer age. Starting this week, collectors worldwide will be able to buy and sell rare stamps via telex through Rousso's Miami-based International Stamp Exchange Corp. In a month, stamp buffs will also be able to trade through personal computers...
...issue price on the stock was $20 a share, and the offering was the biggest real estate deal ever. There was no trouble lining up buyers. Says one Merrill Lynch broker: "We did not even have to solicit people. They called in and said they wanted some of the shares of this great landmark...
MARRIED. Liv Ullmann, 46, Norwegian actress and autobiographer (Choices); and Donald Saunders, 50, Boston real estate broker; both for the second time; in Rome, where she has just finished a new film, Let's Hope It's a Girl. The marriage service, held in a Protestant church, followed by two days a private civil ceremony at city hall...
...panic. London's light- fingered sophisticates are so prevalent on Oxford Street, home of department stores, that Selfridges broadcasts reminders to watch out for them, and an American lawyer noted that he found a shocking $9,640 extra on his credit card. It turned out that an unscrupulous ticket broker in London had charged him 27 times for the same pair of Cats seats...