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...investors should care when funds stray from promised objectives and allow a 31-year-old to manage a 71-year-old's nest egg. Will it take a cataclysm of major proportions to suggest the need for more SEC enforcement and oversight of the fund industry? WILLIAM H. MOHR New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 21, 1996 | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...YEARS BACK, HOWARD MOHR of A Prairie Home Companion wrote a book called How to Talk Minnesotan. Was it funny? Hey, you betcha. So are the twistings of that frosty, flabbergastingly flat accent as heard on the Minnesota-based Mystery Science Theater 3000. Two other gifted natives, the filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, have apparently never got over the giggle value of their regional dialect. Fargo, their derisive new true-crime comedy, could be subtitled How to Laugh at People Who Talk Minnesotan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SWEDE 'N' SOUR | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...where "sometimes you don't fit in. Like if you're Puerto Rican on an Italian block." Thomas gritty memoir recalls a childhood in the Bronx streets looking out for a "bunch of hungry alley cats that could get to their mouse anytime they wanted," "Mr. Mendelsohn" by Nicholasa Mohr recounts the story of the Suarez family through the eyes of a Jewish man watching his neighborhood turn into a Puerto Rican enclave. Nash Candelaria recounts of how he taught his "Okie" friend to scream "Kill the gringos" in Spanish at the cheap movie theater he and his gang...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: Growing up in the Land of Gringos | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

...friends literally all over the world," said Professor Mohr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Renowned Biochemist, Former Prof, Dies at 83 | 6/4/1991 | See Source »

...pioneer in the study of biological energy production, genetic metabolic diseases, and the effect of nuclear fallout on human development, Kalckar was "one of the great men in biochemistry," said Boston University Associate Professor of Chemistry Scott C. Mohr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Renowned Biochemist, Former Prof, Dies at 83 | 6/4/1991 | See Source »

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