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...Christopher Lowe, a New Jersey investment adviser, pleaded guilty to grand larceny after writing a series of bad checks. That was just one of four such brushes he had with the law, which, in the eyes of the Securities and Exchange Commission, made him unfit to publish the Lowe Investment & Financial Letter. The SEC in 1981 revoked Lowe's registration as an investment adviser and went to court to stop publication of his newsletter. Undeterred, Lowe kept publishing...
...legal wrangling, the U.S. Supreme Court settled the issue last week, ruling in favor of Lowe by a vote of 8 to 0. The court said that the 1940 law requiring investment advisers to be registered by the SEC was not intended to apply to those who merely publish tips. The decision will shackle the SEC in its efforts to regulate financial newsletters, which are proliferating as fast as takeover bids on Wall Street. Many news organizations, which thought the SEC was tampering with freedom of the press, supported the ruling...
...respected but noncommercial authors as Essayist Guy Davenport, Poet Donald Hall and Novelist Gilbert Sorrentino. The company debt increased to $500,000. Still, the house made a virtue of its liability. For one thing, it never insisted on exclusivity. M.F.K. Fisher, the cooking authority and memoirist, was able to publish her new works with Knopf as long as North Point controlled the reprint rights. That way, Turnbull decided, Fisher had "both a husband and a lover." Writers and agents were assured that "our small size permits very personal attention. We take our authors' calls collect. An ear is always there...
...copies of Lewisiana have been sold, and other volumes are on the way. "Lewis wrote 45 books," proclaims Martin. "And Black Sparrow has reprint rights to all of them. It's like having an exclusive option on the Inca Empire." If North Point represents the classical approach to publishing and Black Sparrow the romantic, William Kaufmann Inc. stands for the technocratic. The two letters most frequently heard at Kaufmann's modest headquarters in Los Altos, Calif., are "AI" (artificial intelligence), the science of making computers "think." In 1980 a professor from nearby Stanford came to Kaufmann, a former editor...
...things are going, FORTUNE may soon have to publish a 500 Most Wanted list. During the past few months the news has been filled with tales of business schemes and scandals, of corporate intrigue and downright crime. The offenses make up a catalog of chicanery: cheating on Government defense contracts, check-writing fraud, bogussecurities dealing, tax dodges, insider trading and money laundering. Among the culprits: General Electric, E.F. Hutton, Bank of Boston and General Dynamics. Once powerful and respected executives, including Jake Butcher, the Tennessee banker, and Paul Thayer, the former LTV chairman, are now facing the humbling prospect...