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...that time, The Dreyfus Fund was a midget, with assets of only $2,300,000. Stein earned a reputation as a shrewd stock analyst, helping to steer the fund into rapid risers, including Polaroid. Within a few years he was chief assistant to Jack Dreyfus Jr., founder of the fund. In 1962, at 35, Stein suffered a mild stroke, but recovered with no aftereffects. When Jack Dreyfus retired five years ago to enjoy his multimillions, he turned control of the business over to his protege, the ex-violinist...
Charles Englehard is a shrewd man among the shrewd, but a jolly man with a heartening laugh and sparkling dark brown eyes which mirror the clever mind behind, and when Nijinsky wins the Laurel International for his thirteenth victory in thirteen starts and retires, Englehard will have a lot to smile about, because he will have raced the greatest horse in the world, the greatest horse that any of us will probably ever see in our lifetime...
Apparently, the shrewd lord of Mount Vernon knew exactly what he was doing when he declined a salary in favor of expenses. Had he accepted a general's pay, Washington would have earned a total of $48,000 (in modern dollars) during the Revolutionary War. In 1783, he submitted vouchers totaling $414,108.21 plus $7,488 in interest, representing a 6% annual charge for his personal cash outlays. In addition, Washington claimed $27,665.30 in travel expenses for his wife Martha. He justified her visits to such winter resorts as Valley Forge on the grounds that the war kept...
...police it and the public can't really tell if it is being turned on or put on. What the movement obviously needs is some tough but friendly critics. In Please Touch it has found one-a casual amateur who turns out to be surprisingly shrewd and delightfully witty...
...characterization, and his actors all perform with roistering energy. Fraser whines expertly as a craven Scotsman, and Elliott proves once again that he is one of the most accomplished character actors at work in films today. Robertson gives his role just the right mixture of dumb impudence and shrewd calculation. And then there is Caine, an extraordinarily good performer with an apparent weakness for taking any role that comes along. Despite his mighty skills both as a dramatic actor and comedian (AIfie, The Magus, Gambit), his talent is in danger of being blunted by too many appearances in too many...