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...than to, say, Columbia, which--even though I might think it's a great institution--I have no connections with." Viewing the University as a "full-service institution--in business terms," Gordon believes that almost any alumnus can find a cause he'd like to fund. An avid supporter of athletics, Gordon has allocated his past gifts to fund Harvard sports; from his point of view, academics is "sufficiently taken care...
...than to, say, Columbia, which--even though I might think it's a great institution--I have no connections with." Viewing the University as a "full-service institution--in business terms," Gordon believes that almost any alumnus can find a cause he'd like to fund. An avid supporter of athletics, Gordon has allocated his past gifts to fund Harvard sports; from his point of view, academics is "sufficiently taken care...
...while getting acquainted with the earlier Presidents was discovering that Herbert Hoover was an ardent, and articulate, fisherman. "My reporter-researcher, Cassie Furgurson, found a tiny volume by Hoover, called Fishing for Fun. Perhaps President Carter has also discovered the book, because he has recently become an avid fisherman. Hoover wrote: 'Fishing is a chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of the sun on the blue water.' It sounds so quieting and gratifying that I may take it up myself...
...fairly recent phenomenon. As for the redskin connection, it came not from Sioux or Blackfoot country or even from Seventh Avenue but, curiously, from France, where le peau rouge has always been an object of romantic fascination and, lately, of fashionable imitation. French visitors are among the most avid customers at the growing number of U.S. stores that specialize in such Indian artifacts as beads, bandannas, belts, jewelry and even earrings of mallard, quail and pheasant feathers (available at Manhattan's Tepee Town for only $3.98). The most sought-after cowhide moccasins, by Minnetonka of Minneapolis, cost less than...
With a six-figure income-$65,000 in salary plus fees as a director of seven corporations (including American Express and Xerox)-Jordan lives with his wife Shirley and daughter Vickee in a comfortable three-bedroom apartment on Fifth Avenue. He is an avid tennis player and pro football fan. He travels in a chauffeured Mercury, wears Brooks Brothers suits and relishes expensive wines and cigars...