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...series has its share of crafty scene stealers (Warren Gates, Lloyd Bridges, Soon-Teck Oh) and shameless scenery chewers, including Timothy Carey, Nicholas Pryor and Jane Seymour as Adam's soulless wife Cathy. There is one wonderful actress: Karen Allen as Cal's girl Abra...
...games are cheeky manuals for self-styled robber barons. A few also teach the players something about business. Alan Teck, director of Chemical Bank's financial consulting services, developed the hot-selling Foreign Exchange ($15), in which players work through the arcane world of international finance. He is now developing an other game involving the gold market. Stocks and Bonds ($13) initiates players in the workings of Wall Street, and Limit Up (at $49.95, one of the most expensive of the games) shows potential Bunker Hunts the mysteries of trading silver and other commodities...
...last sale of Waugh assets. Actually, this account of the giddy life in an upper-class club for young women in London just after V-E day is touched by a cheerful inhumanity all Muriel Spark's own. "As they realized themselves," she writes about the May of Teck Club members, "few people alive at the time were more delightful, more ingenious, more movingly lovely, and, as it might happen, more savage...
...lived to present a silver gilt cup, once the property of poor mad George, to her great-grandchild-Prince Charles, present heir to the throne of England. She thus placed herself dead center in that huge tract of time between Saratoga and V-E day. Born Victoria Mary of Teck in 1867, she was called "May" by her family, and she is known to recent memory as Queen Mary, wife of George V, her second cousin once removed. With her pastel parasols, tailored suits and hats designed by some puckish confectioner, she was an anachronistic though never absurd figure...
...Royal Mob." Her story begins in that barely imaginable time when a perpetual game of musical chairs was being played with thrones, and Queen Victoria was at the piano. In 1866, a splendidly mustachioed cavalry officer, one Francis, Duke of Teck, had married Mary Adelaide, the dumpy daughter of a Hanoverian duke of Cambridge. Although Teck was only an inconsiderable German principality, Francis thus won the right to join what the Queen herself called "the Royal Mob" of princelings clustering about Victoria's opulent patronage. They were an oddly innocent lot of hobbledehoys, but dedicated to their business-jobs...