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...Founder Steven Jobs, the Macintosh is based on the technology developed for the Lisa but will sell for only $2,500. Experts estimate that Apple will sell 350,000 Macintoshes next year, in contrast with 46,000 Lisas. Says Analyst Michelle Preston of Wall Street's L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin: "Mac is the future of Apple...
BARON JAMES: THE RISE OF THE FRENCH ROTHSCHILDS by Anka Muhlstein Vendome; 223 pages; $17.95 When James Rothschild arrived in Paris in 1811, he headed straight for the most fashionable part of town to rent rooms. At 19 he was leaving behind the suffocating congestion of the Frankfurt ghetto and embracing a city that 20 years earlier had become the first place in Europe to accept Jews without any legal re trictions. Young Rothschild was as drunk on the future as were the Parisians: abandoned the dietary laws, changed name from Jakob to James - Anglicisms were then in style...
James was the youngest of the five brothers who became financiers to all ofEurope, more powerful, certainly more perspicacious, than of the headsof state who depended on them. The Rothschild bank of France (nationalized by President Francois Mitterrand last year) was James' power base. He gleefully courted aristocracy and believed firmly in maximum ostentation, but he was also a passionately hard, meticulous worker and a militant family...
Anka Muhlstein, a Parisian who has written about Proust and Queen Victoria, gives a vivid account of the Rothschild empire, the brothers' enormous shrewdness and energy, their speculations and boundless reserves of money, their private "code" for sensitive business letters, and their swift couriers...
...East London, eventually making off with about $10.5 million in bank notes. A month later, a lone cat burglar stole into Waddesdon Manor, a National Trust estate in Buckinghamshire, and carried away about $1.5 million worth of antiques, jewel-encrusted gold snuff boxes, figurines and rings from the famous Rothschild collection. In South London, a burglar climbed to the roof of Dulwich College, smashed a skylight, descended into the art gallery and used a crowbar to wrench from the wall Rembrandt's painting of Jacob de Gheyn III, worth $5 million. Police roared up within three minutes to find...