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...stock. Nonetheless, the drawling Southerner remains largely an outsider. When he went shopping for an investment banker for the CBS deal, he was reportedly turned down first by Drexel Burnham Lambert and then by Shearson Lehman. Finally he reached a deal with E.F. Hutton, a relatively inexperienced player in the merger game...
...harmonica whose U.S. concert career foundered in the 1950s when he was blacklisted for declining to identify friends as Communists. Edward L. Rowny, 68, is President Reagan's adviser on arms control and a man who lists to the right politically. But Rowny is also an avid harmonica player who used to deflate after-hours tensions at the 1982 Geneva arms talks by performing a Russian folk song or two. As teenagers, both men played together in a Baltimore harmonica band, and after one of Adler's concerts last year, Rowny popped backstage to renew the acquaintance. That...
...lone West German pro on the P.G.A. tour, Langer is the first of his countrymen to win even the German Open. His Masters victory, he hopes, "will inspire some other young boy from Germany to take up the game." For now, though, when asked who the greatest German player in history was, he smiles brightly...
Whoever is tapped will be hard put to become as powerful a player as was the once obscure, two-term Michigan Congressman and former Harvard Divinity School student. After the 1980 election, Stockman was so little known in the Reagan camp that he was not invited to the President-elect's major planning sessions in Los Angeles. But Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, then a mentor of Stockman's, brought along a memo his protégé had written called "Avoiding a G.O.P. Economic Dunkirk" and recommended him as Budget Director...
...Everybody had a rough time starting out in singles because it was so windy,†Wang said. “Even if there is a huge disparity between two players, the wind brings down the level of the better player...