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...investors this year. From January through September, the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 20.1%, but the funds' assets-not counting new money pumped in by investors-declined only 14%. All funds are still spectacularly above levels of the 1950s. For example, $10,000 invested in the Dreyfus Fund in December 1955 grew to $35,199 at year-end 1965, and diminished only to $32,007 on Sept. 30. A $10,000 stake in Fidelity Trend Fund at its initial offering in June 1958 spurted to $93,421 at the end of last year, and was only...
After a year as deputy mayor of New York City, sharp-spoken Lawyer Robert Price, 34, thought it was time to turn his sword into a plowshare, resigned to become executive vice president of the mutual-funding Dreyfus Corp. "The only advice I can give my successor," he said, "is to work hard, stay clean, walk with your back to the wall and keep your Bible handy...
...collected bylines were illustrious indeed. There was Emile Zola pas sionately arguing the case for Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Guy de Maupassant covered a Hindu cremation in India...
Profusion of Titles. Founded as a literary weekly in 1826 and named for the cunning barber hero of the Beaumarchais play, Figaro survived a succession of inept owners, became a daily in 1866. Somehow, it weathered all storms. By supporting Dreyfus in his epic battle with the French army, it lost half its circulation, but the readers slowly returned. On the eve of World War I, the wife of Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, offended by the paper's attacks on her husband, shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette. During...
...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. The 1913 Beiliss trial, the Russian equivalent of the Dreyfus case, becomes an opportunity for Novelist Malamud to analyze the individual beleaguered by orthodoxies...