Word: kidders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy, the problems of the brokerage business and the future structure of the exchanges. Among the men who attend the four-hour sessions are Thomas Reeves of Investors Diversified Services, Wellington Fund's John Bogle, Mellon Bank's Lloyd Pederson, InterCapital's Fred Stein (no kin), and Kidder, Peabody's Ralph De-Nunzio, who is vice chairman of the New York Stock Exchange...
...savage who prefers shoveling horse manure from the streets of Dublin and spreading it on ladies' flowers to working in the foundry with his father. Without Wilder's protean talents, the film could have been absurd: an upper-middle-class American girl studying at Trinity College (Margot Kidder) nearly runs Quackser over in an MG but winds up taking him to her farewell dance and ultimately to bed. Wilder makes the affair believable by investing his role with an appealing integrity as well as sexual overtones; he himself added two scenes early in the film in which Quackser...
During his acquisition drive, Wall Street houses were given as finder's fees a good deal of N.S.M. letter stock (an issue not registered with the SEC and thus not readily marketable). Kidder, Peabody put out a 17-page report forecasting "significant growth" for N.S.M. and got 4,000 shares from the company just nine days later for helping to arrange a merger. By last December, the writing was on the wall if not yet in the annual report. But Wall Street was still impressed; Bear, Stearns & Co. quarreled with an article in Barron's, which noted that...