Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A year out of Harvard and bored with his job in the credit department of the New York Trust Co., Roy Larsen heard that two Yalemen, Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, were about to launch a new weekly magazine. A friend in publishing encouraged Larsen to apply for a job...
Wall Streeters believe that Washington is finally getting fiscal religion and that the political mood is shifting toward stimulating investment rather than consumption. Some steps in that direction were the Revenue Act of 1978, which slashed maximum capital gains taxes from 49% to 28%, and the appointment of the tough...
Footnote-minded historians, to be sure, try to keep alive even the most obscure human misadventures. Yet certain cases thrive quite apart from the historical impulse that might keep them stirring in the public imagination. It is not mere fascination with history that has kept the British forever trying to...
Even the stock players are revitalized by off-center writing. The obligatory blond bombshell (Shelley Smith) turns out to be a Stanford-educated superachiever. The ancient senior partner (the wonderful British actor Wilfrid Hyde-White) is doddering ("I make my best decisions when I'm asleep") and autocratic, but...
All this has been conceived, directed, and largely financed by one man: Daniel Keith Ludwig; 82, the secretive shipowner and industrialist whose estimated net worth of $3 billion or more makes him the richest American. Tough-minded and intensely shy, Ludwig is sole owner of his enterprises and thus must...