Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LARRY YOUNG: INTO SOMETHIN' (Blue Note). A jazz organist who can produce a big sound without drowning the listener is a rare man, but Larry Young is deft enough to do it. He can also comment sensitively and even wryly on the instrument most alien to modern jazz...
...stockholders approve, Big Steel will issue debentures−a form of promissory note−in exchange for the 3.6 million shares of its preferred stock now outstanding. Unlike the preferred stock, which represents equity in the company and guarantees a fixed annual dividend before any common stock dividends are distributed, a debenture is a company obligation that earns interest for its holder. To make the offer more palatable, U.S. Steel will pay debenture hold ers about $30 million annually in interest, instead of the $25 million they now receive in preferred stock dividends...
...home, she says, she suffered a migraine headache and went to a hospital. During her absence, something even odder happened to her millionaire husband, Miami and Houston Financier Jacques Mossier, 69. He was bludgeoned and stabbed 39 times. The results were fatal. According to Miami police, Mossier left a note: "If Mel and Candace don't kill me first, I'll kill them." While Candace fled to the Mayo Clinic for more migraine therapy and treatment for what she calls "too many red corpuscles," the Miami cops extradited Melvin Powers, 23, Mossler's burly nephew. As police...
...cuts dividend taxes to 25% . Schooled in Scandal. Besides reform ing the chaotic stock market, the law will also rid Brazil by 1967 of its greatest source of recent financial scandals: the so-called parallel market, which deals in short-term, high-yield (up to 6% a month) promissory notes backed only by the reputation of the companies that issue them. Investors have snapped them up anyway, built the parallel market into a flourishing $250 million-a-year business that has supported much of the country's economic growth over the last five years. When the Castello Branco regime...
...children to eat anything. Two fudgesicles and dinner is out the window." Some people do not mind when the ice cream man cometh so much as how. The four-bar Good Humor tune that daily wafts over Beverly Hills struck such a sour note with Violinist Jascha Heifetz that he had his lawyer write up a complaint. Then, too, the trail of the ice cream man is apt to be a messy one. Observes a Chicago mother of four: "When those trucks pull away, my front lawn looks like a garbage dump. I break my back every day just picking...