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...Metropolitan Ltd.; of cancer; in London. Starting in 1944 with a single London hotel, he parlayed an investment of a few thousand dollars into an empire that includes hotels, restaurants, catering, dairies, one of the world's largest wine and spirit companies and a vast gambling network. An avid gardener and stamp collector, the hotel tycoon managed to work a mere four hours a day and once said, "I do not want to become a prisoner of wealth, weighed down by responsibility...
...Garp from his less-than-dignified conception through the notoriety and fame which dominate his later years. With Robin Williams of "Mork and Mindy" fame as Garp and a cast of unknowns playing the other principal characters, there may be a tendency towards pessimism even among the most avid Garpmaniacs. Irving's sprawling tive makes it easy for the cynic to believe that the powerful literary work will degenerate on film to a gory suburban piece of horror schlock, without traces of the charm and humor of the book...
Shultz joined the Nixon Cabinet in 1969 as Secretary of Labor. He was the only Administration official trusted by AFL-CIO President George Meany, and the two became avid golfing buddies. That friendship survived Shultz's most controversial action as Labor Secretary: promulgation of the Philadelphia Plan, which forced the construction industry to hire blacks and other minorities through the use of racial quotas...
...dull. I think getting out of debate has helped me do other things," she says. She has become an avid sports fan with cable television hookups that allow her to follow several baseball teams on a daily basis, and she counts a trip to Los Angeles to see Fernando Valenzuela pitch in the World Series as a highlight of her senior year...
...could happen to anyone, except that Woolf's well-documented life is an open invitation to the avid psychospeculator. The intermittently mad author tells how, as a young girl, she was sexually used by an older half Leon brother. Her emotional ties to her father were so strong that a few weeks after his death, Woolf asserted manhood by starting to smoke a pipe. Reflections of beasts have been provoked by far less...