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...Merrill Lynch, credited with being instrumental in his company's effort to "bring Wall Street to Main Street"; of undetermined causes; in New York City. Creator of a popular 1948 ad that lucidly distinguished between a stock and a bond, Engel later expanded it into an investment guidebook for laymen (How to Buy Stocks) that sold more than 4 mil lion copies and helped sell the idea of investing to a broader array of Americans...
...York Times decided last week to remove its name from future editions of its controversial guidebook to colleges. The New York Times Selective Guide to Colleges...
...roughly the same number that the U.S. lost during 14 years in Viet Nam. For the past few years destruction has been confined to Israeli reprisals against the P.L.O.; sporadic clashes of the Syrians, Phalangists and Palestinians; and the ordinary run of street bombings and assassinations. As the Hachette guidebook on Lebanon observes, the city of Beirut is "overflowing with activity and variety...
...child has ever wanted to change a frog into a prince, learn the principles of alchemy or snag a unicorn (and who has not?) The Sorcerer's Scrapbook (Random House; $6.95) is an ideal guidebook. Michael Berenstain's straightfaced account purports to be the Life and Times of Nicodemus Magnus, Doctor of Magic and Sorcerer to the Duke, told in his own words. But its true power and humor lie in its chiaroscuro Dark Ages illustrations of dungeons and dragons and a whimsical text that Merlin might have written on the wind...
...research-group meetings, which focus on such areas as intellectual history, the labor movement and women's history. Institute members also, put their skills to use in a number of projects, including Shop Talk, a documentary film about unionization at a New York lithography plant, and a guidebook to scholarly periodicals for historians...