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...dollar sure thing- the issuing of IBM bonds last month- turned into a pumpkin for such blue-ribbon investment bankers as Salomon Bros., which had underwritten the deal. Because of difficulties selling the IBM securities, Salomon and other traders had to swallow losses of $10 million. For the once staid bond market, it has been a fitting 50th anniversary of the Great Crash...
...crunch made a big front-page splash in just about every newspaper. But the Wall Street Journal, forced by its staid though successful format to use only a single column on page one for the story, had to bury considerable news inside. The paper felt obliged to provide readers with a guide, which ran on the front page...
...proof can be found in this series about a staid Wall Street law firm; it is the latest triumph from James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels and Ed Weinberger, veterans of Taxi and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In the new show, these writers have again loaded a simple sitcom premise with a wide variety of well-drawn (and exceptionally well cast) characters, sophisticated jokes and astute social observations. The first episode, which may be a classic of its kind, also manages to work in unforced slapstick gags, a touch of pathos and a double-whammy final punch line...
...Pianist and Gottschalk Fancier Eugene List to take over Carnegie Hall for a "monster concert" in the master's manner? 40 PIANISTS! 400 FINGERS! 880 PIANO KEYS! said the posters. Actually, there were 41 pianists, all current or former students of List's in his more staid guise as a teacher (first at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, now at New York University). Following a sort of platoon system, the performers came and went at the keyboards often grand pianos, which were arranged in a Busby Berkeley-style fan between two potted palms...
Worse, the company has been rent by management and family feuds. Charles C. ("Jim") Randolph was fired in 1976 as publisher of Business Week, for reasons that say much about the company. Dashing, articulate Randolph did not get on well with earnest, staid Harold McGraw; he also demanded more autonomy for his magazine, which is the company's richest moneymaker, than McGraw was willing to grant. In this battle, Randolph made the mistake of allying with Executive Vice President Donald McGraw, who fell out with his cousin Harold and then quit the company and later left the board under...