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Despite his age, Value Line's founding father remains highly active in the company, putting in twelve-hour days at his Westport, Conn., home or the firm's Manhattan office. "He runs the place with an iron hand," says a former employee. Nonetheless, he has attracted notable talent. Otto Eckstein, the head of Data Resources, an econometric forecasting firm, was a summer intern at Value Line. John Shad, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, also was an employee...
...firm-jawed preeners would have allowed the shot, but he has taken pains to look as gruesome as possible. It is an obvious mockery of the "sex symbol" blather that makes him writhe. He refuses to play out the celebrity part. He will not sign autographs because, says his Westport buddy Writer A.E. Hotchner (Papa Hemingway), "the majesty of the act is offensive to him." Hotchner goes on to say, "He is the most private man I've ever known. He has a moat and a drawbridge which he lets down only occasionally." Over the years he has amused...
...Made played in a weeklong run on television in Los Angeles some years ago, he took out a large ad in the Los Angeles Times: PAUL NEWMAN APOLOGIZES EVERY NIGHT THIS WEEK. He got hold of a print and showed it to friends in the screening room of his Westport home not long ago, supplying everyone with a metal pot and a large wooden spoon to beat on it with. "It was fun for about the first reel," he said, "and then the awfulness of the thing took over...
There is a touch of elaborate fantasy about the salad-dressing venture and, for two people whose reality is Hollywood, a suggestion of make-believe to the contented exiles in Westport. For years Paul and Joanne lived beside the small, tumbling Aspetuck River, where Paul would break the ice and splash on winter mornings after his sauna. They have another house in Beverly Hills and an apartment in an East Side Manhattan hotel. In the summer of 1981, keeping their former house for the use of whichever daughters happened by, they moved across the river to a small, 1736 farmhouse...
When Paul is traveling, he calls Joanne every day, and when they are in Westport he will break off a conversation to say, "I want to see my lady." Fifteen years ago, he decided that his first try at directing would be Joanne's film Rachel, Rachel. The film is a gentle...