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...group of life and property insurers that American Express acquired in 1968, accounted for nearly two-thirds of the company's $1.6 billion revenues last year. In addition Amexco runs an international banking division with $1.8 billion in assets, manages five mutual funds, and owns 25% of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a major Wall Street investment house...
...surprisingly, Star Trek fans have organized into clubs all across the country. The largest, STAR (Star Trek Association for Revival), started only last year but already has a membership of over 4000. "The majority of our members are under twenty-five," said Jan Donaldson, a member of the group, "but a lot of our members are doctors, lawyers and professors...
...been achieved, though, what does it really mean? In direct terms, not much for the general economy. A rising market tends to make people feel richer, and thus the publicity attending the breaching of 1000 might possibly prompt some additional consumer buying. John W. Corcoran, chief economist of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a Manhattan investment house, also notes that higher stock prices make it easier for businessmen to raise money, by selling new shares or borrowing. At most, however, these are indirect effects...
...Chutzpah Award: To ABC's Sam Donaldson for pushing Governor Nelson Rockefeller aside so that he could interview the Agnew family...
...woman I love" for whom Edward VIII renounced the British throne was not the only one. A forthcoming biography of the late Duke of Windsor, by his friend Frances Donaldson, tells the story of his long friendship with Mrs. Dudley Ward, wife of a Liberal Party whip in the House of Commons. They met in 1917, during an air raid, when Freda Ward took refuge in the cellar of a house where a noisy party was going on. She chatted in the gloom with an unknown guest in his early 20s, and after the all-clear, the hostess pressed...