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...nowhere by playing both sides-betting on rising prices some of the time and falling prices at other times. Can you say hedge fund? Sure, the hefty pay filters through the economy, especially in New York. But the bonuses this year call to mind the title of Fred Schwed's famous book on how the Street works: Where Are the Customers' Yachts? Schwed asked the question in 1940. Maybe it's time to start asking again...
...mean, who goes to The Game anyways?” said Yale sophomore Alexander Schwed as he drank beer at one of Yale’s many tailgates. “This is Ivy League football...
There were some run-ins with New Haven police officers, during what Schwed termed events of “drunken debauchery...
After telling his editors of his concerns, Buck decided he was ethically unable to do the book. So Peter Schwed, then chairman of the editorial board of S & S, recommended that the book be turned into a spy novel ("That's a simple way of presenting something you are nervous about presenting as fact," he told the Wall Street Journal). Two novelists declined...
...Schwed has since retired and had nothing to do with Vengeance-the same story from the same secret agent but with a new writer. It was offered by a small Canadian publisher to Michael Korda, who jumped at it. Korda is the nephew of Film Producer Sir Alexander Korda. Articulate, aggressive and imperturbably assured, he makes so little secret of his ambition for recognition that friends consider it part of his Hungarian charm. Among his own bestsellers is Power! How to Get It, How to Use It, a book neither as trashy nor as clever as it sounds. Hype...