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...droves. Since last August, Merrill Lynch has added 900,000 customers to the 3.2 million it already had. At a time when big brokers are linked to their customers largely by area code 800 telephone numbers, many investors have begun patronizing the hundreds of small discount brokers that have sprung up in storefronts and lobbies. Banks also are getting into the act, buying discount brokers and offering their services. Last week, for example, the Federal Reserve permitted Chase Manhattan to acquire Rose & Co. Investment Brokers. BankAmerica and Citicorp already own brokers...
...neophyte actor took a couple of Richard Pryor hand-me-down roles and parlayed them into movie stardom. In 48 HRS., released last Christmas, Murphy played a sassy convict sprung from stir for two days to help Tough Cop Nick Nolte catch a couple of killers. The film's director, Walter Hill, says of Eddie: "This kid is so enormously talented he can get away with anything." This time Eddie ran away with the movie: 48 HRS., for which he was paid $200,000, has tallied an imposing $78 million at the box office...
...have more freedom. We can use visual flips and 'up' music, which you can't use after a story on the bombing of Beirut." The rapid-fire items are introduced by Anchors Ron Hendren and Mary Hart, who are both perky and chirpy enough to have sprung fresh from the set of a vintage Andy Howar movie...
Especially controversial are the parish relief committees that have sprung up to channel food and funds to the families of the imprisoned (see box). A Jesuit priest from the city of Kalisz was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for collecting aid for the relatives of political prisoners. When the teen-age son of a relief worker died after he was mauled by the police, Cardinal Glemp lashed back, calling on the government to stop "infringing human and civic rights." Although the authorities have promised to investigate the event, Poles expect no results. When the Pope spotted the dead...
...stocked with sprightly gags-from the opening credit sequence, with its Rube Goldberg series of mishaps, to the evil Superman getting a wicked charge out of setting the leaning tower of Pisa aright. Director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night, Petulia) paces the jokes to his trademarked sprung rhythm and sees that they are deftly executed by his engaging cast. Vaughn may lack the top-dog malevolence needed for an archvillain, but he communicates the fun he had playing the role. O'Toole, whose cheerleader beauty has too often been camouflaged on TV and in bad movies...