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Kott is a powerful figure behind the scenes at JB Oxford & Co., a small discount brokerage with big pretensions whose parent company, JB Oxford Holdings, has become a darling of a group of online investors, to the point that many of them have bought stock in the brokerage company. Hundreds of messages about the company, based in Beverly Hills, California, have been posted in America Online's Motley Fool electronic forum, which has been prominent in boosting prices of a number of issues. Last year the company's stock opened at $1 a share and shot up to nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SECRET LIFE OF JB OXFORD | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...Army and Navy, meanwhile, were reconstituting mechanisms from the Nazis' V-1 guided missiles, which had wrought such tremendous damage on England in the waning months of the European war. The result was the JB-2 jet bomb, a low-altitude missile. The Army had requisitioned 1,000 JB-2s by the end of July 1945 as part of an eventual plan to hit Japan with up to 500 such missiles a day. The Navy hoped to do the same with its version, called the Loon. But by that time, more horrific technologies were ready to close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR OF THE WORLDS | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

...jb w hi pa! So thinks a sign in the subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIANT IN ALL WEATHERS: JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995) | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...Kool. Get get get get get down uhh. Wah wah ooh pop. One o' two to Patty Hearst and her friends the Sybionese Liberation Army, with head honcho himself Donald DeFrieze dancin' to Kool in his UNderWEAR. Wood blocks congos In Time mo' Sly. And suddenly, EW&F and JB and Sly and P-Funk and the AWB all soundin simiLAR and heaviER, NO MESS, ohh yeah, heavy snare and now HORN SECTIONS blowin' screamin' hot no hangin' back FO-ward again here hear here & IN YO' FACE. So dig this: "When we did wrong, papa beat the' hell...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Make It Funky | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...cryin'. Take take me take me take me, If You Want Me To Stay. Sly SO slooowed down and laiiid back, smooth and no fast and furious, sly thick beats sounding like he's been ridin' a HORSE a horse of course of course unless its a SMACK and JB himself sounding...restrained? So here it comes, full-force Mothership, landing at a DISCO nearest you and now, twenty-years later still goin' down pickin' yer ass and then smellin' th' funky finger, right in yo' nose. From my ass to you. Achoo...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Make It Funky | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

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