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...trainees, six back-office assistants-announced that they were quitting, with no advance warning. Most distressing to Bateman Eichler was the employees' destination. They moved en masse across Shaw Avenue to open, on Monday morning, the brand-new Fresno office of Bateman Eichler's competitor, Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis...
Rodney Mashia, Carl Webber--Sword-in-the-Stone...
...must a contemporary saint be an activist? The Rev. George Webber, president of Manhattan's New York Theological Seminary, says yes: "When I think of a saint today, I think of a person who is willing to spend his whole life in a struggle for justice." Yet Monsignor Francis Lally, a member of the U.S. bishops conference staff, offers a gentle demurrer. "A saint is a person who puts himself in the service of others for spiritual reasons," he says. Just how one accomplishes that, adds Lally, may vary from age to age. "The activist has taken over...
...carried on a masturbatory affair with that picture since 1957, and the California model who posed for it. Talese found the man, Harold Rubin, now 35 and a Chicago porn merchant, by wandering into his sex shop; he eventually learned of his obsession and finally located the model, Diane Webber, now a Malibu, Calif., housewife and belly-dance instructor. (The two have never met.) He interviewed the pair and their families more than a dozen times, and recounts the sexual histories of all in the smooth, detailed prose at which Talese excels. "I got people to talk because I care...
Other brokerages also are scrambling for survival. Last month, Blyth Eastman Dillon broke off merger talks with Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, then promptly closed ten of its 55 branch offices and fired 350 employees. Hayden Stone Inc. and Shearson, Hammill are preparing for a merger by Labor Day; reports are circulating on the Street that as many as 1,000 employees will be laid off. Perhaps 100 other firms are talking merger, and the best guess as to how many more Big Board brokerages will merge or liquidate by the end of the year...