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...space to which Cox referred is privately owned. Cox said that the money for the space had been provided for women through a $5000 gift from an anonymous benefactor which the women were told was available on Friday night...
Some years ago, Sharp, though a Methodist, became a benefactor of the Jesuit school and was named a "Founder" of the Society of Jesus. He was the only American Protestant ever to receive that honor. Beginning in 1967, he conducted a complex series of financial transactions with the school, transferring large sums of money and blocks of stock between the institution, his business enterprises and himself personally...
While becoming a respected corporation lawyer in Pasadena, Mardian entered local politics as a member of the city's school board. In 1960, he met his chief political benefactor, Richard Kleindienst, who engineered Mardian's appointment as Barry Goldwater's Western field representative in 1964 and his similar job for Richard Nixon in 1968. Finally, Kleindienst, with Attorney General John Mitchell, got Mardian appointed general counsel under Secretary Robert Finch in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...that made many of the spaghetti Westerns so much cockeyed fun. The plot creaks with age: an ex-con named Hank McCain (John Cassavetes) gets sprung from the pen after serving twelve years of a life sentence. "How's it feel to be outside again, Dad?" beams his benefactor at the prison gate. "Don't ever call me that," snarls McCain, who regards his foppish son with heavy-lidded suspicion...
...stand. Gould has resolved to amass a private collection of film classics, but his only acquisition thus far is a dubious item called The Monkey, which he unreels for son Jason. Also militating against the success of the Gould film library is the fact that its founder and chief benefactor becomes easily intimidated by the intricacies of threading the movie projector...