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...know what happened to its vanished main character. For a while, a mini-cottage industry arose around posthumous books by Ernest Hemingway - bullfighting tome The Dangerous Summer, Parisian memoir A Moveable Feast and novels Islands in the Stream and The Garden of Eden. Papa Hemingway's pal F. Scott Fitzergald's The Last Tycoon hit bookstores about a year after his death, while a seemingly endless list of Middle Earth tales, starting with The Silmarillion have been apportioned out over the past thirty years by J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary executor, Christopher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posthumous Literature | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...does not pay to show up for work. But sometimes it pays plenty. When Purcell, Graham, a blue-chip London brokerage house, opened for business last Monday, about half its 120 brokers were absent. By day's end it seemed that many had skipped to a nearby rival, Cantor Fitzergald, which is rumored to have offered to double the defectors' salaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: I Say, Old Boy, Are You There? | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

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