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...latest chapter in the synfuel saga began two weeks ago with the resignation of Victor Thompson, 59, who had been the SFC's $135,000-a-year president for just two months. Thompson's departure means that the SFC board does not have enough members to conduct business legally. Thompson had replaced Victor Schroeder, the organization's first president, who resigned from the post in August amid a flurry of allegations, among them that he had charged $25,000 in home interest payments to the corporation. Just days after Thompson accepted his new job, the Securities...
...China," is his presidency's most important foreign trip by far. Speaking in the Great Hall of the People in Peking, he alluded to Richard Nixon's epochal China trip twelve years ago. "I believe history beckons again," he said. "We have begun to write a new chapter for peace and progress in our histories, with America and China going forward hand in hand...
...large book companies have snapped up smaller ones in recent years, the once sedate world of publishing has been changing as fast as the plot of a Dickens novel. Last week two of the oldest and most prestigious publishers added a new chapter to the merger story. Macmillan (founded 1869) said it will pay about $15 million in stock for Scribner Book Companies, a closely held firm whose imprints include Charles Scribner's Sons (1846) and Atheneum...
...Gurney's version, the precious papers are a lost chapter of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby manages to bed Daisy Buchanan. Irene Worth is Fitzgerald's former mistress who protects that cache, and Jeff Daniels is an English instructor who will do anything, including going to bed with Worth's homely granddaughter (Stockard Channing), to obtain...
...story the old woman never mentions any letters and finds out only at the end what her boarder is after. "Ah, you publishing scoundrel!" she hisses. In Gurney's play, the woman demands that the young man write her biography and teases him with Fitzgerald's lost chapter. Her anger when he tries to sneak away with it makes no sense. Her character is ultimately unbelievable, as is that of the instructor, who conveniently falls in love with the granddaughter and forgets Fitzgerald. Worth is, as ever and always, in supreme command of the stage, and Channing...