Taking Stock Of Marina

Taking Stock of MarinaThere's a stolid E. F. Hutton office a block from the Atlantic on the eastern coast of Florida, where the sun turns the air to steam every afternoon. Bright-shirted families trundle metal pails and folding chairs down the sidewalk that leads to the beach; one keeps expecting the people to stop and lean toward the building, trying to eavesdrop on the financiers inside.The walls in the Hutton lobby are dark mahogany. An electronic ticker-tape readout marches across one wall,...