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...confirmed bachelor who looks a bit like Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion, McGowan lived in rented apartments for most of his life, but four years ago he bought a house in Georgetown and converted it into a revealing kind of private playland. Pushbuttons control all manner of gadgets: lighting panels on every floor, a laser-disk stereo system that can be turned on by infrared signals from any room. And in the back patio, a Jacuzzi whirlpool bath stands surrounded by fake boulders. McGowan admired the props in the polar bear cage at the National Zoo and ordered some...
...world is hardly in need of new alphabet books. The shelves of every children's library sag with them. But Bert Kitchen's Animal Alphabet (Dial; $11.95) should displace a score of bygone manuals. Each member of his wild kingdom is involved with the letter that begins its name: the koala hugs the main stem of the K; two bats hang from the crossbars of the B; an ostrich peers out from the great hole of the O. This is no restatement of the obvious; an elephant may push an E, but what is that long-tailed bird...
...time Tennessee's Jacob Franklin ("Jake") Butcher hobnobbed with the likes of Jimmy Carter and Bert Lance, controlled 26 banks with his brother and had an estimated personal worth of $400 million. But his fall has been as spectacular as his rise. In 1983 Butcher went broke, and ten of the banks were declared insolvent. Last week Butcher, 48, together with a longtime business associate and a lawyer, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tenn...
...South was white flight from the Democratic Party. Southern whites voted for Reagan by 71% to 29%. Many Southerners continued to vote Democratic for state and local candidates, but they saw Mondale as a buttoned-up Northerner who had sold out to Big Labor. Lamented Georgia Democratic State Chairman Bert Lance: "The Democrats have been on the wrong side of all the issues...
...then at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, Jackson made his cause clear. The morning after his stunning speech of conciliation and redemption, he spoke to the Black Caucus. "Women got what they want," he said, "in Geraldine Ferraro; the South got what it wants in Bert Lance. What did you get?-you ain't got nothing!" He made his demands sharp: that the Democratic Party in the South establish in each of the old Confederate states one distinct district where a black Congressman would be nominated and, with the support of the party, be elected. In other words...