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That kind of fast-as-light trading has made immediate information a vital concern. On his morning drive to his office in Manhattan's midtown General ! Motors Building, Howard Stein, chairman of the $35 billion Dreyfus group of mutual funds, stays in minute-by-minute touch with price moves of 72 selected stocks on a QuoTrex sideband FM receiver. The QuoTrex system uses the Security Industry Association's computerized data base, to which all U.S. exchanges report via the Intermarket Trading System...
...musical circles, Thomson is recognized as a revolutionary modernist. Yesterday's program included such eclectic compositions as "Capital, Capitals," a four-part chanted vocalization of a Gertrude Stein dialogue with piano accompaniment, and "Sonata for Flute Alone," which was performed by Fenwick Smith, a well-known Boston flutist...
...quietly. With Wilma ("Billie"), his wife of 38 years, he shares a Manhattan apartment and a suburban house in Rye, N.Y., overlooking Long Island Sound. The Loews chairman never smokes, only occasionally drinks and usually plays tennis twice each weekend. "He always wants to win," observes Investment Banker Bernard Stein, one of his regular partners. Tisch also enjoys showing guests first-run % movies on a full-size screen. Friends are devoted to him. Says Stein: "If I were in trouble and had to make a phone call, he's the guy I'd call...
...Anastasio Somoza: a suitcase filled with shoes and black brassieres, Latin-style music pulsing along a castle wall painted with austere political slogans. But rather than a satire, the production was a dreamlike allegory about the corruption of all plutocrats and of all firebrands. Woodruff and Set Designer Douglas Stein offered dazzling visual imagery, from a demented New Year's Eve ball to a row of garret apartments that appeared, suffused with golden light, halfway up the back wall of the stage. This technical facility never overwhelmed the text. The finale, when Figaro (Tony Plana) returned to join the junta...
Hemingway should be spared further Freudian autopsy. He was a masterpiece of contradiction. Every element in him had a blood feud with its opposite. He cherished his friends and he treacherously turned on them (on Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Scott Fitzgerald and many others). He adored women and he hated them. His literary program was to write the brutal truth, and yet he was sometimes a liar and a fraud. He was profoundly creative and profoundly destructive. He had a spontaneous gift of life. He enjoyed (that is the word) a lifelong relationship with death. He resolved all contradictions...