Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TROUT, by Elizabeth Bowen. This is a rare commodity on today's fiction market: a novel of sensibility. The story is about a wandering, capricious heiress who leaves many lives bobbing helplessly in her wake...
...notable journalistic coup was its re cent interview with the shadowy Alfred Winslow Jones, father of Wall Street's current investment sensation, the hedge fund (whose profit-at-high-risk philosophy aims at taking advantage of both upward and downward swings of the market). Touches of humorous erudition are sprinkled throughout. A regular monthly column, for example, is called "Haruspex," for the Roman soothsay ers who divined the future by poking through the entrails of sacrificial animals...
...author spent two months this summer in Nigeria with Operation Crossroads Africa. He worked on the costruction of an open-air market in Ojo Village, twenty miles northwest of the capital of Lagos...
...leader in publishing city directories and listing every person over 18 in every house hold in 1,400 cities by name, occupation, sex, and ownership or rental situation. From this enormous mass of information, the company is able to offer any paying customer an increasing variety of mailing lists, market research and area studies. Currently it rents names and particulars at the annual rate of $60 million...
...settles on his recollections of an old acquaintance, Hymen Lustgarten, a former Marxist from New Jersey who has passed through all the radical ideological incarnations of the '30s. Lustgarten loses at everything, including the postwar European black market and the Laundromat business in Algeria. But as Bellow reveals in a balance of satire and compassion, Lustgarten's failures brim with life juices while Mosby's successes are empty and dry. "Having disposed of all things human," Bellow concludes, "he should have encountered God . . . But having so disposed, what God was there to encounter...