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...Gilded Age, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner depict the boom mentality of the post-Civil War years: "He was born into a time when all young men of his age caught the fever of speculation, and expected to get on in the world by the omission of some of the regular processes which have been appointed from of old." What railroad men and land speculators were to the 1870s, investment bankers and risk arbitragers are to the 1980s. Perhaps a , modern-day Thorstein Veblen could explain the eagerness with which moneymen like Boesky vied with one another in acquiring...
...billion communications empire already straddles three continents and, via satellite, reaches into space. Still, Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch detected a weak spot: no major U.S. publishing house. Meanwhile, 170-year-old Harper & Row, which has published authors ranging from Mark Twain to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was the target of at least two takeover bids. Without so much as a rumor, Murdoch swept in with a bid of $65 a share, clobbering a $34 offer from Magazine Publisher Theodore Cross and the $50 price proposed by rival publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Harper & Row quickly accepted the $300 million deal last week...
Then there was the fellow from Mark Twain's Hannibal, Congressman Harold Volkmer, who was part of the entourage even though he is a Democrat. The effect was to subdue even Margot Patterson, president of the local Democratic club. Said she: "I don't blame ((Reagan)) for coming to Boone County. We have a top-notch school system here...
...spends so much time trying to convince Flossie that he is nearly undone by a dog, allowing the child to escape with her treasure intact. Rachel Isadora's warm illustrations are as sly as the characters, and they carry a valuable message first articulated by Mark Twain: "Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- WATCH THAT BASKET...
...KNIGHT. Chaucer's "verray parfit gentil" hero could be a killer in a metal dinner jacket, slaying unbelievers when it pleased him. Even so, as Mark Twain speculated about the old warriors, "there was something very engaging about these great simplehearted creatures, (although) there did not seem to be brains enough . . . to bait a fishhook with." The knight has been Galahad, Don Quixote and every tin soldier, in Robert Louis Stevenson's couplet, "With different uniforms and drills/ Among the bedclothes, through the hills." The chevalier now answers the roll call as Rambo and G.I. Joe. He wears camouflage...