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EQUITY FUNDING CORP., now Orion Capital Corp. Record high stock price (1969): $86. Low before suspension of trading (1973): $14. Last week: $5. Los Angeles-based Equity was a darling of the insurance industry until March 1973, when Ray Dirks, a Wall Street insurance analyst, was told by a tipster...
Today an immense ignorance of Japanese swords prevails outside Japan. There is one great private collection of them in the U.S., gathered over 40 years by Dr. Walter Compton of Elkhart, Ind. Last week 46 of his classical blades-the tachi or long cavalry sword, the shorter katana and the...
The storm began to break around Equity four weeks ago-in a manner hardly calculated to reassure the expanding roster of investors who are becoming disenchanted with the stock market (see previous story). A former employee, Ronald H. Secrist, decided to blow the whistle. For some reason, Secrist told his...
Died. Rudolph Dirks, 91, German-born artist and creator of those comic-strip delinquents The Katzenjammer Kids; in Manhattan. Starting with the old New York Journal in 1897, Dirks was the first to use balloons to enclose dialogue, first to plot a story in consecutive panels, and one of the...
Oddly enough, Arlene Del Fava would have gone scot free had she packed a hunting, carving or penknife -any type other than a switchblade or gravity knife, which snap open at the flick of a wrist. If the owner can prove lack of illegal intent, New York's Sullivan...