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...could disclose the backer there would be no question of my getting the bid," Coffman added. So far Coffman has refused to disclose his financial support to the MTA Board of Directors who must decide on a buyer. However, according to MTA officials, the Board will not necessarily demand such information before reaching their decision...
...Laurent was being backed by Swiss interests. In France's most sacred national industry,that was bad enough, but it was nothing compared with the awful truth.Already irritated at the incursions of U.S. industry and investment into France, the French learned last week that Saint-Laurent's backer is none other than an American: J. Mack Robinson, 39, an Atlanta insurance executive (Delta Life). Robinson was the secret patron who supplied financial backing for Saint-Laurent to start a dress house of his own 16 months ago, and now owns 70% of the promising haute couture house...
...money was raised. The next problem was a location. Through one potential backer, the Perrys and their producer, Paul Heller, heard of the old Clothier mansion in Wynnewood on Philadelphia's Main Line, lately vacated by a starchy prep school for girls. The Perrys made a $2,000 donation to the Armenian church group that had taken the place over-and they were in. Many movies drag on for weeks, months', and sometimes years in the making. This one was shot in 25 days-because it had to be if the money was to hold out. The Perrys...
...Rainer Barzel (C.D.U.), who has been an enthusiastic Erhard backer, becomes All-German Affairs Minister in place of Berlin's Lemmer (C.D.U...
...beatable Bruins lost to Penn by three points and went down before Columbia and Cornell by a collective difference of four. Add a tie game with Yale, and the loyal Brown backer will tell you that his team could be in second place (ahead of the Crimson) if it had scored just eleven more points...