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After leaving Spain, Tuchman stayed on in Paris, writing for United Editorial--a U.S.-sponsored publishing outfit that issued a weekly report on the war--and working against non--intervention and appeasement. As she later wrote, "It was a somber, exciting, believing, betraying time, with heroes, hopes, and illusions. I have always felt that the year and decade of reaching one's majority, rather than of one's birth, is the stamp one bears. I think of myself as a child of the '30s. I was a believed then, as I suppose people in their 20s must be (or, were...
...loot was handed out last month in Key West at the offices of Treasure Salvors Inc., the outfit that found the hoard on the ocean bottom. Three years ago, the investors, ranging from a California brain surgeon to a Florida auto dealer, paid $20,000 for each of the 35 units in a unique tax-shelter limited partnership. The deal was the brainstorm of an ebullient New Jersey tax-shelter specialist, Jerry Burke, 50. The money entitled the investors-partners to 17.5% of anything recovered during 1980 from the Spanish galleon Santa Margarita. That ship and a sister ship...
...Their band was awesome: it really helped make the fans louder themselves. It was a 70-piece outfit, nothing but brass and drums, and had no trouble getting the crowd pumped up with its rendition of the Budweiser song, with the Badgers' amended ending...
With the end of the current recession everything but official, the old adage that Wall Street anticipates economic upturns with a bull market has proved itself true once again. (Most economists now agree that the recession ended in January, though the National Bureau for Economic Research, the outfit that decrees on such matters, has yet to rule it is over...
...restaurants and the pinball outfit now under attack are innocent victims, outlets for the frustration of those witnessing admittedly undesirable but probably inexorable changes. The liquor establishments which cause trouble are stand-up bars, not restaurants that happen to serve alcohol. It is difficult to believe that if Grendel's and Ruggles begin to serve beer, the number of outsiders coming to the Square will sharply rise. While a stronger case can be made against the impact of arcades like the Dream Machine, much of the damage has probably already been done at the packed Tommy's Lunch and Elsie...