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...novel purports to be "the Private Inquiry of a Pinkerton Detective into the Death of President Lincoln," as edited and verified in recent years by another private investigator, Michael Croft, Colonel, U.S. Army (ret.). The Pinkerton man, a Jules Vernian character named Nicholas Cosgrove, has been retained...
...Ingvar Wixell, Philharmonia Orchestra and Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Lorin Maazel conductor, Columbia; 3 LPs). Madame Butterfly is one of opera's most endearing and enduring heroines. Scotto makes a warm Butterfly; she effortlessly holds the almost whispered high notes of her Un bel di aria. Domingo's Pinkerton is such a hearty fellow that it is hard to hate...
...Radio City, Lassie is not only onscreen but also onstage four times a day. She and her trainer and groom share a $380-a-day suite at the Plaza Hotel, and a Pinkerton detective protects her from unfriendly Dobermans and Great Danes and overly friendly Shih Tzus and Lhasa Apsos. He cannot protect her from the law, however. In Central Park last week, a policeman came up and ordered Bob Weatherwax, the son of her famous trainer, Rudd, to put her on a leash. "This dog never wears a leash," protested Weatherwax. "This is Lassie!" Responded the cop: "Right...
...security agency, reckons that 80% of large U.S. firms have either started executive protection programs or are considering doing so. Scores of new firms specializing in executive safety have opened shop, and the big, old protection agencies are growing. Burns, the nation's second largest such firm (after Pinkerton's), reports that its executive protection business has doubled in the past year, and accounts for a sizable percentage of the firm's $200 million annual revenues. Other outfits, including makers of armored vehicles and surveillance systems, as well as anti-kid-nap driving schools, are also expanding...
...Pinkerton's and Burns offer an all-encompassing executive security service. Their advice does not come cheap: a major company that calls in an agency for a thorough study of its security needs may expect to pay $100,000 or so. Both Burns and Pinkerton's typically begin such a consultation with a "threat analysis," aimed at determining the degree of peril to which the company and its high-level executives are exposed. After that study, which may take as long as six months if the client has overseas branches, the advisers draw up a plan that outlines...