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...began generating attention in the early '60s by his success as a quick in-and-out stock trader and portfolio manager with Boston's Fidelity group of funds. He went to New York City to start Tsai Management and the Manhattan Fund. The fund was virtually an overnight success. The initial offering was planned for $25 million, but was so greatly oversubscribed that $247 million in shares were sold. Two years later, the CNA Financial Corp. (formerly Continental National American Corp.), a financial-insurance-housing conglomerate, agreed to buy out Tsai Management-88% owned by Tsai...
...what happens daily in Ulster would bring about a state of emergency almost immediately in Britain or the Republic of Ireland. Every morning, the BBC's Northern Ireland newscast (which is not heard in Britain) begins with an overnight casualty report-a chilling recitation of bombings, shootings, killings. It ends with the day's diary of local events-choral-society meetings, flower shows, agricultural competitions-all testifying that some normal life does go on, even amidst the violence...
...game of attribution can involve big money. When the collection of Texas Oil Millionaire Algur Hurtle Meadows was declared largely a collection of fakes by the Art Dealers Association of America, Meadows' investment, valued at $5,000,000, depreciated overnight into a collection of junk. The Met's own famed Etruscan warriors, proudly exhibited for 28 years, were relegated to the basement when it was discovered that they were skillful forgeries produced by a Roman tailor back...
...criticize them (from the safe purlieus of the Hayes-Bick) and preach of what we would de in their brain-puzzling jobs. But they are the men with guts enough to try. If they succeed in then chosen work they become heroes; if they fan they are forgotten overnight. But at least they have done their very best. By the way, just who was LIOYC. Jordan's predecessor? In order to find out if it pays to belong to the College Daily we must read between the lines. Another arduous task...
...feeding the players pimento-cheese sandwiches, once even sending them to bed without supper after they lost six games in a row. In the off season he logged 50,000 miles on the back roads of the South and beyond, searching for talent. He parked in gas stations overnight, bedding down in the back of the car with a pistol for protection. At dawn, he would shave in the station's rest room, eat a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast and then hit the road. "I learned sellin' encyclopedias," says Driesell, "that if you knock on enough doors...