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Beneficent Hurricane. The biggest single benefactor was Manhattan. Hassan's buying spree began on Sunday, when New York's Saks Fifth Avenue opened privately to allow the royal party to purchase $18,000 worth of dresses, sports jackets, luggage, lingerie and baby clothes. On successive days Hassan returned again and again, and a dazed Saks official said, "He's bought in almost every category. You could say he's done practically the whole store." Then the King and couriers swept through other midtown stores like a beneficent hurricane, cleaning the shelves of cameras, hi-fis, records...
Prime Minister Diefenbaker's stronghold in the Prairie Provinces remained loyal to their benefactor. All of Saskatchewan's 17 seats went to the P.C.'s for the first time in history. Diefenbaker retained his own riding of Prince Albert. Liberal Hazen Argue suffered a surprise upset in his riding of Assiniboia...
Only last week did Cardinal Gushing identify himself as the mysterious benefactor whom Bobby had called. He was doing so, he said, to stop "rumors crediting this gift as coming from sources with which I have no identification." Declared Gushing: "I alone am responsible for the collection of this extraordinary...
...largely self-educated Bosch left the Dominican Republic in 1937, disgusted with Trujillo after "The Benefactor" personally ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitian squatters. With Cuba as a headquarters, Bosch organized his political party, traveled widely throughout Latin America as an unofficial emissary of the anti-Communist left...
Once Curly Lambeau cajoled a fan into selling his cream-colored Marmon roadster (for $1,500) to bail the team out of hock; in repayment, Lambeau allowed his benefactor to play one minute of one Packer game. Another year, a spectator tumbled from the Packer grandstand, sued, won a $5,000 verdict, and forced the team into receivership; Green Bay businessmen chipped in $15,000 to save the franchise. Again, in 1949, after two miserable seasons (Lambeau's last as coach), the Packers floundered financially...