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...pictures, print-only television commercials, Shearson/American Express calls itself the stockbroker for the "serious investor." Last week the firm did some serious investing of its own. Only ten days after he had read in FORTUNE that Wall Street's Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb might be for sale, Shearson Chairman Peter A. Cohen, 37, signed an agreement to buy the old-line investment banker for $360 million. The combined companies will be known as Shearson Lehman/American Express...
Robert M. Kuhn, a graduate student in mathematics, and Darey Devney, a local Anachronism Society enthusiast, organized the noon to 5 p.m. event...
...Kuhn, who also financed the event, will be partially reimbursed by the Boston branch of the nationwide creative anachronism organization. None of the lecturers, artisans, or performers were paid for their services...
...pleasing and profitable, he will be honored for it. But any number of lethal or logistical horrors could undo his best work. "I warned the baseball owners that they were electing a commissioner who may be the most criticized man in the country for months before he even arrives." Kuhn, in letting himself in for one more season of criticism, is no more reluctant at heart than Pete Rose...
...That's the joke," he says. "Here's Pete Rose at 75 still playing first base, and panning over to the commissioner's box, on his 588th monthly extension, there's Bowie Kuhn .. ." He laughed, something he has been doing increasingly. "I guess as the wine runs down, it does get sweeter," he said. -By Tom Callahan