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...business he doesn't understand. My guess is that only a small percentage of Enron investors understood the energy-trading business the company was in. How many losses could have been avoided if these investors had just adhered to Buffett's easy-to-follow rule. DANIEL MCADAM Poultney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 25, 2002 | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 17, 1961 | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Holiday Spirit. In Rutland, Vt., Laborer Robert Woodward. 37, well fortified with alcohol, decided to pay a holiday visit to his 71-year-old, bedridden mother at East Poultney, lost control of his dump truck on a curve as he was approaching his destination, caromed off a tree and into his mother's cottage, knocked the cottage off its foundation and his mother out of bed and into the arms of son Ronald, with whom she was conversing, was hauled into court and pleaded guilty to charges of driving while drunk and without a license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 10, 1955 | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...Died. Poultney Bigelow, 98, wealthy, globetrotting author-journalist; after long illness; in Saugerties, N.Y. A lifelong crony of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, Author Bigelow was easily quoted on dictatorship, boating, war and nudism ("To go naked is wholesome, especially for nervous women"), once urged the U.S. to make F.D.R. President for life, and before Pearl Harbor, predicted Axis victory in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 7, 1954 | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

Bearded Germanophile Poultney Bigelow, 84, good friend and biographer of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, after a visit to Germany but not to his 81-year-old friend at Doom, returned to the U. S., exclaimed: "I'm so homesick, I can't see straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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