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Rubin Review: ‘Past Imperfect’ by Julian Fellowes (Writer of the Screenplay for ‘Gosford Park’)
Society Meets the Sixties The aristos flock to a party. The brownies are spiked with hashish. By Martin Rubin Wall Street Journal August 30, 2009 Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes; St. Martin's, 410 pages, $24.99 Anyone who has seen "Gosford Park" (2001) knows that Julian Fellowes, the movie's…
August 30, 2009
Martin Rubin on ‘To Heaven by Water’
Martin Rubin reviews Justin Cartwright's novel To Heaven by Water: Quest in the fog: A recently widowed former British TV news anchor frantically searches for meaning in this novel that knows its setting. By Martin Rubin L.A. Times, August 21, 2009 Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa in…
August 25, 2009
Jim Kaplan Tour Oct. 24 ‘The Great Crashes of Wall St.’
Jim Kaplan invites us to join him Oct. 24 at 1 pm for a Lower-Manhattan historical tour that traces Wall Street's quests for riches and even goes back to that pre-Wall Street entrepreneur, Henry Hudson, who sailed into New York harbor 400 years ago this September: The Great Crashes of Wall Street…
August 25, 2009
Shelley Fisher Fishkin Reading in NYC Oct. 8
In NYC on October 8, Shelley Fisher Fishkin will be reading from one of her newest Mark Twain books, and she's delighted to welcome classmates and friends to this free event in Lower Manhattan. Shelley writes: On Thursday, October 8, the evening before the Class of '71's celebration of the 40th…
August 25, 2009
David Pudlin Wins Squash Gold Medal
Congratulations to David Pudlin! In the photo below, he wears the gold medal he just won for Team Masters Squash at the Maccabi Games in Israel:
July 22, 2009
Rick Merkt Profiled in YDN
In April, the Yale Daily News' Courtney Pannell profiled our classmate Rick Merkt: Candidate reflects on political roots at Yale Winston Churchill once said, “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.” While New Jersey Assemblyman Rick…
July 16, 2009
In the News: Jim Kaplan’s Tour of Lower Manhattan
Noreen O'Donnell, news columnist for Westchester's Journal News, reported on Jim Kaplan's July 4 tour of lower Manhattan: "Each Independence Day, for the past 13 years, Kaplan has led a group through the streets around City Hall in the early morning hours. It's as much a very personal telling of…
July 8, 2009
Jim Kaplan’s July 4 Lower Manhattan Tour
Jim Kaplan's annual dead-of-night July 4 walking tour of lower Manhattan is officially sold out, but below are excerpts from and links to his recent articles in Last Exit magazine on Horatio Gates and Thomas Paine, both of whose lives he celebrates on the tour; Jim claims Gates is the greatest of…
July 2, 2009
Preston Athey Profiled in Forbes
Catching up on a Forbes profile of Preston Athey: Mutual Funds A Different Tune Zack O'Malley Greenburg, 03.12.09 High price? No problem. Preston Athey's value fund ignores the first tenet of value investing. Amid market chaos you might not expect a veteran portfolio manager to spend his free…
June 15, 2009
Rubin on ‘A Day in the Life’
Magical mystery tour and morality tale By Martin Rubin | The Washington Times, Sunday, May 31, 2009 A DAY IN THE LIFE: ONE FAMILY, THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, & THE END OF THE '60's By Robert Greenfield Da Capo Press, $24.95, 338 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN Oh, London in the Sixties, that…
June 1, 2009