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Lately, under the twin spurs of threatened inflation and easy credit, speculators have been especially active in two most traditional fields: the stock market and the commodities exchanges. "October, this is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks," said Mark Twain. "The others are: July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February." His caution is widely ignored. No fewer than 22 million people own common stocks, far more than ever before, and few among them do not have some sort of speculative ambition. Daily trading on the New York Stock...
...APPLE TREE. Mike Nichols directs and Barbara Harris stars in three playlets based on stories by Mark Twain, Frank Stockton and Jules Feiffer...
CORONET BLUE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Not playing Mark Twain for once, Hal Holbrook stars as a newspaper editor who helps amnesiac Michael Alden search for his past...
...LEGEND OF MARK TWAIN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Host David Wayne continues the legend by dramatizing scenes from Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and other Twain-told tales...
...They resorted to poetry and Latin and printed irreverent homilies, such as this one from the Virginia City (Mont.) Weekly Republican: "Brigham Young agrees to confine himself to one woman, if every member of Congress will do the same." And they were not above publishing fiction as fact. Mark Twain got his start in just this way when he was working for the Virginia City (Nev.) Territorial Enterprise. In one grisly fabrication, he described how a man murdered his wife and nine children, inflicted a mortal wound on himself, then rode four miles on horseback to a saloon where...