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...insurers use genetic work-ups to deny jobs to those inclined to love thrills? Will parents demand prenatal testing to weed out children who have the "wrong" personality genes? "They are big issues," admits Dr. Richard Ebstein, a molecular biologist who led the research team at Jerusalem's S. Herzog Memorial Hospital, "and they will come...
That means Doug Herzog, Comedy Central's new president, will have to stay one step ahead. He's on the lookout for someone to replace Maher as "the face of Comedy Central" and hopes to launch three new series next year. Herzog also wants to rejuvenate that tired staple, stand-up comedy. The channel has attracted big-name comics like Whoopi Goldberg and Gary Shandling for upcoming specials, but Herzog is also looking for a way to showcase new talent that won't be "a guy telling jokes in front of a brick wall at Giggles in Cincinnati...
Before he was a villain, Robert Vesco was a Horatio Alger hero. Born in 1935 to lower-middle-class parents in Detroit, Vesco, according to biographer Arthur Herzog, had three youthful dreams: to become a millionaire, to head his own company and "to get the hell out of Detroit." He accomplished those goals rapidly. Largely self- educated, the teenage Vesco, who managed to complete only half a correspondence course toward a high school diploma, grew a mustache to look older and try to qualify for jobs in local auto factories. He quickly moved from low-level design work to engineering...
...arrive at that pinnacle, Vesco used an innate talent for self-inflation and conspicuous consumption. As a struggling entrepreneur, he would call on his investors wearing, according to Herzog in his book Vesco, "a double-breasted suit, a homburg, and gloves" on a hot summer day. He would then say, "If my chauffeur calls, tell him to circle the block if he has to." The chauffeur in question was his plant manager, Ralph Dodd. Vesco liked to say he graduated from Wayne State University, although there is no record of his enrolling there. But he had such self-possession that...
Abbott said the sympathized with Herzog and would bring Herzog's concerns to the Eliot House masters...