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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three years ago, Dawson phoned the Shreveport branch of Louisiana State University, a tiny campus with about 4,000 students in the town where he grew up. He wanted to know how to make a donation. Chancellor Vincent Marsala remembers taking the call and assuming that because Dawson was an autoworker, the most he could give was a couple of hundred dollars. Marsala says he "nearly flipped" when Dawson wrote checks for $200,000--enough to fund 18 four-year scholarships...
...advice: work hard, spend sparingly and invest in solid stocks. Dawson once bought a three-bedroom house with a 30-year mortgage--and paid it off in six years. He also once owned a pair of shiny Lincoln Continentals. But he gave up those things 23 years ago when he and his wife were divorced. Today he lives in a one-bedroom apartment in Highland Park, a gritty Detroit suburb. He drives a red 1985 Ford Escort that runs just fine, thank you--though neighborhood thieves have forced him to do without hubcaps...
Vietnam was a long time ago, of course. The rage is all but gone, or mellowed to irony. Hanoi has a real Hanoi Hilton now, with a grand ballroom and a website. My Lai is a theme park...
MARRIAGE ANNULLED. Between former model JERRY HALL and senescent rocker MICK JAGGER. Jagger's legal tack--that their Hindu wedding on Bali nine years ago was not binding--didn't prevent his ceding to Hall a sum London tabloids put at $15.5 million. The couple, who have four children, reached a settlement the day their divorce trial was to start...
...objectifying, and in a way that never seems to pertain to guy jocks. Sure, Joe Namath did that take-it-all-off Noxzema ad years ago; Jim Palmer posed in his Jockey shorts, and there's always been a bold sexual element to NBA basketball. But by and large, male sports celebrity is calibrated by success. You win, you make more headlines, you make more dough...