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...financial injury: the specialists are under widespread attack. The Securities and Exchange Commission is again examining them, as part of its broader study of the market, and even New York Stock Exchange President Robert Haack concedes: "The specialist system has its shortcomings." As if that were not enough, Richard Ney, a onetime movie actor turned investment adviser, has condemned the specialists in his sensationalist bestseller, The Wall Street Jungle. He charges that the specialists manipulate the market and more than make up their short-term losses by turning enormous profits when prices rise, as they eventually do. Most Wall Streeters...
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...NONFICTION 1. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex, Reuben (2) 2. The Sensuous Woman, "J" (3) 3. Zelda, Milford (5) 4. Up the Organization, Townsend (1) 5. Human Sexual Inadequacy, Masters and Johnson (4) 6. The Wall Street Jungle, Ney 7. Hard Times, Terkel (8) 8. The American Heritage Dictionary (10) 9. Mary Queen of Scots, Fraser (6) 10. The New English Bible...
Williams' story does contain some rib-a'd fun. "Come on, desiccated creeps," Reaney cries out in a with-it drinking club, "throw off your guilt, throw out your chests, you're English. Form up the squares, Kabul to Kandahar, Mad Mullahs, Pathans, Uhlans, Marshal Ney -stuff the lot of them, bloody foreigners, show them cold English steel." But his writing is marred by cliches of thought ("That was life, people dominated by people, dominating others in turn") and some awful puns ("Ezra Pounds while Ernest Humsaway...
...strikers were straight out of the Social Register, Who's Who and Dun & Bradstreet: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit ney, Ogden Phipps and Captain Harry Guggenheim, to name just a few. Their spokesman was Jack Dreyfus Jr., senior partner of Dreyfus & Co., the Wall Street investment house. Dreyfus & Companions are horse owners, and what got them riled up last week was the failure of the New York legislature to enact a bill that would have resulted in higher purses at the state's thoroughbred racing tracks. It got them so angry that they refused to run their horses at Aqueduct...