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...Rosenthal & Co. has become a phenomenon in the clubby world of investment banking that is dominated by venerable firms led by partners who are often well into their 70s. The average age of Rosenthal's six top executives is 31, and the firm's floor trader at the New York Stock Exchange is a mere...
Today business has picked up to the point where Don earns $500,000 a year. He owns a record company, real estate as far east as Salt Lake City, two supper clubs in addition to Honey's. He has just bought out Restaurateur Trader Vic on the island, will expand the chain as Trader...
...Francisco's Trader Vic's restaurant was about to shut down for the night when somebody came up and said: "There's a little girl outside asking for something to eat." It was a pretty cute surprise when he went out and found British Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, 48, along with Partner Rudolf Nureyev, 28, and seven friends, all clamoring for some rum and Chinese goodies after a performance of the touring Royal Ballet. Two hours later, the merrymakers danced off into the night-and now it was the San Francisco police department's turn...
...Board companies. Until 30 years ago, the exchange operated as a private club, and the little investor was usually at the mercy of manipulators. The 1901 clash between E. H. Harriman and James J. Hill for control of the Northern Pacific Railroad, for instance, wiped out many a small trader and nearly wrecked the exchange...
Half a dozen or so central characters, wearing both the blue and the grey, move forward to the conflict. On the Confederate side, the standouts are General Forrest, a bombastic, semiliterate slave trader who leads a ferocious cavalry charge, and Captain Hamilton LeRoy Acox, a mild Georgian who, though weary of war, wields a mighty sword in a lunatic moment at Fort Pillow...