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...miniprofiles of such figures as financier Michael-David Weil and Hollywood superagent Mike Ovitz. The prose is burnished, but not much of the dish is fresh, save for two first-rate pieces -- one by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings about Mob leader John Gotti, the other by Richard Morgan about advertising mogul Burt Manning -- that are spun off from books. The juiciest item is about the marital breakup of billionaire businessman John Kluge. The weakest, a rambling travelogue of Prague, is by editor in chief Jane Lane. Overall, if Details is about night life and style, and Men's Life...
TREASURES OF ETON COLLEGE LIBRARY: 550 YEARS OF COLLECTING, the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City. For the first time in the U.S., books, manuscripts, drawings and objects from the famous college (prep school, to Americans) that has been molding the English elite since 1440. Among the choice displays: the holograph of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751), by onetime Eton schoolboy Thomas Gray. Through...
More recently, Denzel Washington portrayed royal white villain Richard III in this part summer's Central Park Shakespeare series, sponsored by The New York Public Theatre. "We have been casting across racial lines since producer Joseph Papp started the Theatre in 1954" explains a Theatre spokesperson. "Morgan Freeman appeared recently in our production of The Taming of the Shrew...
...bank profits slumped in recent years, industry leaders have searched for ways to expand into new lines of business. Last week the Federal Reserve Board granted J.P. Morgan & Co., the parent of the giant bank Morgan Guaranty Trust, the right to underwrite stocks through a separate subsidiary. The decision marked the widest breach yet in the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, which has barred banking firms from buying and selling stock. On Wall Street securities firms charged that bankers might funnel federally insured deposits into risky stock deals. But regulations bar bank holding companies from shifting funds from a bank...
Phenom Watch: Freshmen can't play Ivy League football, so highly touted recruit David Morgan is no threat to steal Lazarre-White's QB job. But they can play baseball, and sources say the Bo Jackson-esque Morgan hit a 400-foot home run at an informal Crimson practice last week...