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...Securities, which is generally considered to be the biggest of all arbitrage traders. Sheriff has the air of a boulevardier, is a wine authority and one of the important U.S. philatelists. Trained as a lawyer (one of his former partners is Diplomat-Investment Banker George Ball), Sheriff did a stint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and founded his arbitrage firm back in 1960. He is one of the few arbitragers whose clients give .him full discretionary authority...
...just as he does the environment of the pigeons that he wants to play ping-pong. He adjusts temperature and humidity in the writing room to optimal levels. He dangles some reward--a meal, for instance--in front of himself and lets himself eat only when his allotted writing stint is completed. The writing of a Skinner work is the culmination of years of behavioral preparation. Skinner takes copious notes on many of his thoughts and actions and then files them in his extensive record system, a system that functions' almost as an alternate mind. He rotates the ink color...
...unmannered, uneducated son of an immigrant fisherman. The Depression is therefore a kind of blessing for Lavette, because it stops the game. Instead of jumping out of the window of his office to splatter on the streets of San Francisco when stock prices begin to plummet, Lavette, after a stint as a bum, leaves his business suits in storage and contentedly returns to the life of a fisherman, the life his father and countless generations before him had known...
...Managing Editor of TIME is Ray Cave. After 17 years of writing and editing at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and a stint as Acting Editorial Director of all Time Inc. publications, Cave, 48, joined TIME in 1976 as an Assistant Managing Editor. Says Editor-in-Chief Donovan: "Cave is an editor of great enterprise and imagination, and I am confident that he will continue TIME in its lively and informative ways...
...years ago, though, the man who has won more Ivy games and championships than anyone else decided to play ball with the big boys and while his six-year stint at Illinois was by no means a disaster, nobody at Michigan or Ohio State was seen shaking in his cleats...