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Nahum Vaskevitch and David Sofer were well known respectively in London and Jerusalem financial circles, where they seemed the very models of the modern investment wizard. Less known to their colleagues -- in fact, their deep, dark secret -- was the amount of time they spent in frequent, terse phone conversations. Last week the subject of their calls became the stuff of scandal when the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Vaskevitch, 36, the head of international mergers in Merrill Lynch's London office, and Sofer, 46, an Israeli stock speculator, with ringing up more than $4 million in illegal profits from...
...midst of deciding between Almond Roca and smoked beaver, Marquand interrupted my inner sanctum. "Phone for you, oh financial wizard...
...keys, keeping a wild rhythm that seemed to play out like an entire band. His right hand was like an antenna, pulling in melodies from the Delta blues, from Caribbean calypso, from rock and pop and jazz and anywhere else his ear chanced to roam. Even a jazz wizard like Art Tatum was astounded and flummoxed by Fess's style. This record, first released in 1975, has now been reissued on CD. The disc, with the good professor's piano remixed to stand way out in front of the band, is a perfect introduction to Longhair's eldritch dexterity...
...magician who could teach Merlin a few tricks. Once Peter is hauled away to a prison tower, Flagg's puppet, Thomas, rules with a combination of cupidity, naivete and wickedness. Will Thomas be deposed? Will Peter escape and regain the throne? Will he successfully confront Flagg -- or will the wizard disappear with a hearty "Aiiiiyyyyyyyyeeeeee?" Devotees of the King assembly line want no surprises and will receive none. Those dissatisfied with this subcompact have only to wait a while for the next model. It ought to be along any minute...
...even as he shied from the fray. But this Monday he goes to New Orleans and next week to Florida, and he plans further appearances this spring in New Hampshire and Iowa. He has met privately with top national strategists, among them Bob Shrum, Ted Kennedy's former word wizard, and Gerald Rafshoon, Jimmy Carter's media adviser...