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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
What leads a writer to choose his specialty? For Andrew Tobias,
it was his experience as a part-time entrepreneur at Harvard in the
late 1960s. Joining in several college-run ventures, he rented
refrigerators to dorm dwellers and helped write the popular Let's
Go: The Student Guide to Europe. Says Tobias: "I learned a lot in
a short time, but I decided that I have more fun writing about
business than trying to run one."
By the time he earned his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School in
1972, Tobias had published the first of his seven books. Among
them: Fire and Ice, a biography of Revlon co-founder Charles
Revson; The Invisible Bankers, a critique of the insurance
industry; and The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, all big
sellers. A prolific contributor to New York, Esquire and other
magazines, Tobias has also written a computer program, Managing
Your Money, which since 1984 has sold more than 250,000 copies.
Starting this week, Tobias will write a regular column for TIME
called "Money Angles," which will appear in the Business section
every two or three weeks. Tobias will write primarily about
personal investing but will occasionally comment on wider economic
and financial issues. Says Business editor Stephen Koepp: "Andy
brings a rare combination of irreverence and expertise to these
topics. Whenever he troops through the jungles of financial arcana,
he always emerges with pithy, practical advice for his readers and
unusual insights into the latest financial trends. He skewers the
bad deals and scouts out the good ones."
Twenty summers ago, millions of Americans heard the words "the
Eagle has landed" as astronaut Neil Armstrong prepared to take
man's first steps on the moon. During the next three weeks, 174
local TV stations in the U.S. will broadcast Man in Space, a
one-hour video history of space exploration. Produced by TIME
Magazine Television and California-based GGP, the program will
feature footage from the archives of NASA, U.P.I. and other
sources. The show will also include interviews with U.S. and Soviet
space pioneers, who now dream of the next goal: manned exploration
of Mars.