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...Boston Corp., the investment banking house that represented Kennecott in the deal, put the case for the merger this way: "Once it becomes public that a company is fighting off a takeover bid, that company inevitably has to be sold. The sharks begin to circle, but then the white knights like us move in and rescue the company." Now some Kennecott shareholders are doubtless looking for a white knight...
True Confessions, John Gregory Dunne's first novel, is Tom Spellacy's unrepentant recollections of his life as a tarnished blue knight. He proves to be a gifted, foulmouthed raconteur who can charm the reader down to a plane where cynicism and sentimentality are indistinguishable and the difference between social history and gossip is irrelevant. His "book" on Lois Fazenda, a would-be starlet whose naked body was found neatly cut in two at the torso: "She lived in a series of boarding houses much like the one on North Cherokee. On West Adams Boulevard she thought...
Georges Binet was one of those fortunate individuals not compelled to starve as an artist. He was well-to-do and had almost immediate artistic success at the Paris Salons, receiving gold medals for his work, becoming an Officer of the Academie des Beaux-Arts, and finally made Knight of the Legion d'Honneur in 1937. The prosperity and security show through every canvass--his is a decidedly comfortable art. There is no question of his technical skill or the "prettiness' of his paintings, large or small (he generally preferred to paint them about 10' by 15"). Indeed, they...
...vote, tilting with the powerful municipal unions--a group, oddly enough, that opposed him bitterly in the primary. Then comes the pitch for business incentives, hints of tax reductions, and the obligatory attack on the wasteful social programs of the Lindsay administration. It is an interesting litany for the knight of New York's liberal reformers, a pitch that might be heard coming from a Republican. A pitch, in fact, that is coming from the Republican--and from everyone else in the race...
...quote Gladys Knight, "I've got to go, I've got to go, ohhhh...