Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffery E. Forrest who wrote (8904)	11/10/1997 12:03:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

COMS has lost 31% in 20 days: Actually outpacing INTC to the downside. -G- techstocks.com I think they're being punished for the huge merger charge. Either that or someone expects profits to evaporate. DK

To: Jeffery E. Forrest who wrote (8904)	11/10/1997 3:42:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 22053

Creator of The Little Mermaid 'died a virgin' COPENHAGEN, Denmark (Reuters) - Hans Christian Andersen, creator of "The Little Mermaid," was inspired by his love for a series of women but died a virgin, according to his latest biographer. "I believe he never had a sexual relationship," said Bente Kjoelbye, whose book "H.C. Andersen and His Lady Friends" was published Monday. "If he had had, we would know about it from his fairy stories which all reflect his personality," she told Reuters. Kjoelbye explores in detail the private life of the Danish writer, whose stories such as "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Matchgirl" and "The Elves and the Shoemaker" are still read by millions of children. Andersen always had a circle of adoring women who shielded him from public indifference and ridicule, the book says. As well as his passion for actress Jenny Lind, who later became the mistress of an English crown prince, Andersen's four other unrequited loves are recorded. Seven other women, from childhood friends to substitutes for the mother he lost at the age of 14, were his confidantes, including Dorothea Melchior who was present when he died in 1875 at the age of 70. "The women he loved were his inspiration as a poet. The others were his substitutes for a family," Kjoelbye said. Though he showered them with letters and wordy protestations, she says he never progressed beyond pressing to his trembling lips the hands of Lind and of Riborg Voigt, his first love, and died a virgin. *Maybe it was "Hands" not "Hans"!*