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People in earlier civilizations and some primitive tribes up to modern times did dream-and believe-that personal names held mortal power. In The Golden Bough, Sir James Frazer tells how the ancient Egyptians and aboriginal Australians alike took pains to protect their secret true names-and the vital power they contained-from falling into the possession of outsiders. Aging Eskimos, Frazer also records, sometimes take new names in the belief they thus get a fresh start in life. Such superstitions have waned in today's civilizations. Still, as Noah Jacobs points out in Naming-Day in Eden, people...
...jumped from less than $1 in 1976 to $29 last week before a two-for-one split Friday. It has made a million dollars for each of 14 ground-floor investors from Montgomery; Mendel alone has stock profits of more than $5 million. Says Montgomery Investment Banker Nimrod Frazer, whose holdings are worth $335,000: "Kinder-Care is the biggest piece of capitalism that Montgomery has ever...
Leyland agreed, and won the grudging acceptance of Scanlon. Then Strike Leader Roy Frazer stood before the toolmakers and defended the proposal. "This is not the end of the road-just the beginning," he declared. By a nearly unanimous vote, the Birmingham strikers decided to go back to work...
...view, Nixon's greatest fear was "public exposure of personal inadequacy." While he often proclaimed his relish for combat, he seemed to dread it at the same time; it was as if defeat would mean, as it did for the King of the Wood in Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough, a sentence of death. It was his efforts to prevent the exposure of his Administration's failings that ultimately undid...
...this affable, unambitious movie, Nightclub Comedian Jackie Mason appears as a grubby police informer named Roger Pittman, who heads for Miami and a big time with $7,500 from the police contingency fund. Brogan (Dan Frazer), the cop who lent Roger the money as a means to trap a crook, lights out after him. With a couple of days' head start, though, Roger is already spending like crazy. He installs himself in an expensive hotel room, acquires an eye-numbing resort wardrobe and falls in love with a lonely number from Long Island (Marcia Jean Kurtz...