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Died. Benjamin Graham, 82, dean of security analysts and an investor who became a millionaire; in Aix-en-Provence, France. Graham's 1934 book Security Analysis (coauthored with David L. Dodd) remains a business-school textbook; more than 100,000 copies have been sold. The Intelligent Investor, his layman's guide to Wall Street, stressed the importance of the net asset value of a corporation's stock...
SOME CHAMPIONS-SKETCHES AND FICTION BY RING LARDNER Edited by MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI and RICHARD LAYMAN 205 pages. Scribner...
...prime characteristic of the pure mathematician is an inability to speak in language that is intelligible to the layman. It follows that any novelist with a 14-year-old mathematical genius as his hero is probably looking for trouble. Ratner's Star, Author Don DeLillo's fourth book, has just such a hero-Billy Twillig-and its problems begin right there. Although Billy has won the only Nobel Prize ever awarded in his field, neither he nor DeLillo can explain much about the nature of "zorgs," Twillig's epochal discovery. Aside from his ineffable talent, Billy...
Electric Shock. It was a defiantly wise decision-one, Nolen concedes, a layman might have been too timid to make. At Massachusetts General, he learned that his problem was arteriosclerosis; a buildup of fatty deposits was obstructing two of the three coronary arteries. The suggested remedy: an operation that heart surgeons humorously call "a double cabbage"-from the acronym CAB (for coronary artery bypass). Though more than 90% of the patients who undergo such operations survive at least five years, Nolen knew that any heart surgery posed grave risks. While the surgeons do their work, the heartbeat must be stopped...
...Margaret Rozga, 30, lecturer and doctoral student in English literature at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee; in a civil ceremony in Las Vegas on April 22. Father Groppi is now excommunicated and banned from performing priestly functions. If the Vatican should give him permission to become a layman, the decree of excommunication could be lifted, and he could eventually be married within the church. Both Groppis hope for absolution and this week have an appointment to talk with Milwaukee Archbishop William Cousins...