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...Died. Gustave L. Levy, 66, Wall Street wizard, philanthropist and G.O.P. fund raiser; following a stroke; in Manhattan. Born in New Orleans, Levy started work in New York City at 17 as a runner for a brokerage company. He joined the investment banking firm of Goldman Sachs & Co. (current assets: $1.2 billion) in 1933 and became a partner in 1945. Beneficiaries of Levy's charity included Manhattan's Y.M.H.A., where he had left an unpaid bill of $2 during the Depression...
...into their apartments for the night. No doubt, then, hailing from Kansas means you've whiled your precious life away watching the wheat push and sway up from the clodded earth. The Indian Wants the Bronx is a half-hour exercise in existential schmaltz. West Side Story and The Wizard of Oz are cliches, too, but they exude wit and romance where The Indian only hits you over the head with sociological pretension...
...minimum standard" approach to undergraduate education is not without problems. Occasionally we encounter a student who fits the category of one-sided genius--the mathematical wizard, for example. As Bertrand Russell has pointed out, someone with the gifts of a Mozart would gain little from a conservatory. But such occurrences are extremely rare, and need not be central to a plan designed for the majority of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. We should always preserve sufficient flexibility to take care of these very special cases...
...Wizard of Oz at 8, Singing in the Rain...
...huge, 17-place mahogany table-the seat reserved for President Arthur R. Taylor-but no one said anything about it. They had all been warned of what was going to happen next. CBS Chairman William S. Paley, 75, wasted no time. He announced that Taylor, 41, a financial wizard whom Paley himself hand-picked in 1972 for the presidency, had resigned, effective immediately. What "the Chairman," as Paley is known at CBS, did not say was that just a few hours earlier he had summoned Taylor to his office-and fired...