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Adventure does not preclude a lofty aim. There is a whole new breed of Americans who seek adventure in politics or war abroad, including a small, constantly changing, necessarily anonymous group of American youths who have joined with European contemporaries to spirit East Germans through the Berlin Wall. Adventure is also constantly produced in the name of scientific exploration, but whatever the admixture of other causes, the true adventurer is an idealist only by the way; he is really after adventure for its own sake...
Light Heavy. Born Sheldon Leonard Bershad on Manhattan's East Side, Leonard went through Syracuse University on a scholarship, then began a Wall Street job on Black Friday, 1929. The job failed with the market, and after a while, Leonard decided to try acting. Broadway, inundated with epicene chorus boys, welcomed the swarthy, unsubtle Leonard, cast him as a light "heavy" in seven long-running shows, including Three Men on a Horse, until the Depression caught up with the theater...
Casual as a man singing in the shower, he dipped and soared to either end of his register with effortless ease, deftly switched from sustained pianissimos to quaking explosions of wall-to-wall thun der. But for all his raw power, the brightly burnished timbre of his voice carries a built-in caress. Ghiaurov, at 36, is unquestionably the best basso singing today...
...most vigorous merger makers of all, however, are Wall Street's celebrated investment bankers...
Chaperons & Referees. Last week's acquisition of New York's Ruppert brewing business by Rheingold was conceived by Loeb, Rhoades. Wall Street's Lehman Bros, works on about 100 possible combinations a year, so far in 1965 has arranged the mergers of U.S. Vitamin with Revlon and of whisky-importing Buckingham Corp. with Schenley. Last year Lehman negotiated some 20 mergers, for which the purchase prices totaled more than $700 million. Goldman, Sachs last year put through more than ten key mergers, including Genesco's acquisition of the Kress variety-store chain, Transamerica's purchase...