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...about acting on behalf of trusts and corporations as a dealer of large secondary distributions, where the commissions to the salesmen are five times as large as for normal brokerage. Isn't the customer entitled to be told when buying a stock on a secondary distribution that the salesman is getting extra compensation for selling him that particular stock...
...half-outraged, half-defensive statement by self-described "gun fanatic" Charles A. Whitman, father of Mass Murderer Charles J. Whitman, that "I raised my boys to know how to handle guns" echoes the plaintive wail of another father, Willy Loman, protagonist of Death of a Salesman, who in exasperation over his son Biff, cries out: "Why is he stealing? What did I tell him? I never in my life told him anything but decent things." Particularly in light of the Austin tragedy, Whitman's utterance seems just as hollow, counterfeit and pathetic as Willy...
...talk of old times at Ozuki, the Divine Wind two decades later was barely a zephyr. Eying a row of modern U.S. trainers on the familiar runway, Shipyard Salesman Tatsuo Suzuki, 43, wished that "our planes had been as good as these in those days." Ah, rasped Hotel Manager Jumpei Watanabe, "if our planes had been this good, we wouldn't be here...
...president and operating head stepped James Edward Thomson, 61, a taciturn type who has never sold a share of stock. It made sense that Thomson is an administrator instead of a salesman. Beamed Edward A. Pierce, 92, last survivor of the firm's founding fathers: "I don't know anybody I would pick over that boy as head of our firm...
...Street field by miles. By day, its computers direct orders and confirmations to and from trading floors, provide up-to-the-second quotations on 490 over-the-counter stocks and computerized estimates on the value of 2,600 others. By pressing a few buttons on a desk console, a salesman anywhere in the U.S., within five minutes can get back a computerized analysis of the prospects of almost any stock. At night, while human employees rest, computers handle the firm's accounting, run off customer statements, prepare monthly reports, figure margins on individual accounts, reckon Merrill Lynch's daily cash...