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...friend) in 1959. Another return to glory amounted to an end to laughter: the breeder of Alysheba is Preston Madden of Lexington's Hamburg Place, the hors d'oeuvres center of the bluegrass. During the first 25 years of this century, John E. Madden was known as the "wizard of the turf." He bred five Derby winners, including Sir Barton. But the grandson Preston and his flamboyant wife Anita have been famed solely as champion party throwers. This year's bash howled as usual, but the door prize the next afternoon was a little dignity restored...
...Chaos describes it nicely," says Rush, but when it works, it means that Guitar Wizard David Bromberg, for example, doesn't just appear, do a three- song Bromberg bubble unrelated to anything else and then vanish. Instead he may back up Rush later on slide guitar and improvise a number with the gifted white Bluesman John Hammond. This season's featured guest was the formidable black Rhythm-and-Blues Pioneer Bo Diddley, whose major weapon is a five-speed turbo electric guitar built in a startling rectangular shape...
...necessary commands and will continue to do so for the rest of the week. But when I sit in front of a computer, I'm still helpless. When an unfamiliar statement appears on the screen, I still have to roam the halls of Pennypacker in search of a computer wizard. Last week I was one of the great unwashed; today I am a QRR graduate. Yet in the end I am still computer illiterate...
...ironically enough, is played by former Supergirl and current Fox flame Helen Slater. When Brantley enters the business world as a mail clerk--and an inexperienced one, at that--Christie already has worked her way up to a top level executive job. Christie is a hard-working financial wizard, and Harvard graduate, whose skill impressed businessmen more than did her femininity...
...identity of the financial community's latest fallen wizard, Boyd Jefferies, may have come as less than a rude shock, since the prominent Los Angeles stock trader was known to have dealt heavily with Arbitrager Ivan Boesky. But on Wall Street, where scandal is becoming almost routine, Jefferies' announcement last week that he would plead guilty to two criminal charges created a whole new sense of dread. For Jefferies was not charged with insider trading, as a dozen others were, but with other rule-bending practices that have become commonly tolerated. The case against Jefferies, based partly on tips provided...