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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intro duction to finance by covering the frenzied Toronto Stock Exchange and its volatile penny stocks. He also got his first market blooding (he lost $4.98). Back in his native Boston, Gart got a different view of finance in the tradition-laden world of M.I.T. He learned a lot about mutual funds, but little about the bonus : some hot tips on the stock market. Only at the very end did M.I.T.'s closemouthed men loosen up enough to venture that M.I.T. looks with favor on such true-blue chips as IBM and U.S. Steel...
Unknown to Jones, however, a cameraman filmed the meeting from a parked panel truck. And when Jones drove into a downtown parking lot to make his payoff, state investigators and newsmen peered from a nearby building...
...Ahead lay still more prickly years, not mentioned in Early Havoc, when June bounced from other marathons to modeling, from soap operas to summer stock, before she broke into lights. June's final judgment of her Early Havoc: "I had learned a lot. I would be careful of everybody and everything . . . You can take the girl out of vaudeville, but you can't take the vaudeville out of the girl...
...biggest attraction of the mutual fund to dealers and salesmen alike is the hefty "load" charge, or commission, usually 71% to 81% (compared with the 1% commission for round-lot purchases on the New York Stock Exchange). Many a customer howls when told of it. But the funds have a quick rejoinder: they argue that the charge includes the cost of selling out as well as buying, is the price of broad diversification and professional management. If an investor with $4,200 (the average size of a mutual fund holding) tried to buy a diversified portfolio of stocks...
...title notwithstanding, Gypsy is a singularly sobersided affair until midway in Act II, when a trio of tassel-tossing campaigners bump, grind and bring down the house in an indelicate air for the G-string called You Gotta Have a Gimmick. Burlesque may have killed vaudeville, but a lot more of it might cure Gypsy...