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...DiMaggio, one of the best-loved players in the history of the national pastime, is dead. Tributes to the Yankee Clipper, who in his time won the hearts of a generation of Americans, have poured in from across the country. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig hailed DiMaggio as "the personification of grace, class and dignity on the baseball diamond." Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould, eulogizing DiMaggio, called him "the glory of a time that we will not see again." President Clinton, in a statement, said, "this son of Italian immigrants gave every American something to believe...
...McGwires of the world. The Sequoia Fund, for example, has beaten both the average stock fund and the S&P 500 for the past one, three and five years. But it does not accept new investors. Some solid big-bet funds that do welcome new money include Davis Growth, Clipper, Janus Twenty, Lexington Corporate Leaders, Yacktman and Enterprise Growth...
...stock funds that hold 35 or fewer stocks today and also met that test in 1995 and 1993. That weeds out new funds and those that were concentrated for only a short time. The screen turned up 31 funds. Only four (Sequoia, New England Growth, Enterprise Growth and Clipper) are beating the market this year. On average, the group of 31 has returned just 12% a year for the past five years, vs. 18.3% for the S&P 500. The big-bet funds lag badly over three- and one-year periods too, though they stack up O.K. against the lower...
RYUTARO HASHIMOTO Beleaguered Japanese chief would have loved Clinton to drop in, but Bill rides the China clipper home...
...didn't marry Marilyn Monroe. But when Ralph singled in the second inning of the nightcap of Friday's doubleheader against Penn, it evoked memories of the Yankee Clipper's most noteworthy feat, for it extended Ralph's Ivy League hitting streak to a Harvard record 21 games. It eclipses the former record of 20 games set by Bobby Kelley '80 and tied by Ralph with a sixth-inning single in the doubleheader opener, a 9-4 win over Penn...