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Back in 1976, Jake Butcher, who may well be Tennessee's next Governor, loaned his friend and fellow banker Bert Lance $443,000 for some of Lance's elaborate financial deals in Georgia. Some wags are now suggesting that Butcher's loan should be classified as an educational expense, so closely has the Tennessee Democrat imitated Lance, both in his banking practices and his ability to get close to Jimmy Carter...
...Hamilton Jordan, Dr. Peter Bourne, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Lance and Barry Jagoda. In: Jerry Rafshoon, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Blumenthal and Mr. and Mrs. James Earl Carter III. That is a partial list of those who did and did not make it into this year's The Green Book, Washington's suede-covered guide to the up and climbing. Getting into The Green Book requires that you not at present be divorced or separated, "unpleasantly notorious," or missing from the recommended list of entries sent over from the White House. The socially savvy staff of the manual...
ATLANTA. Burned once by William Tecumseh Sherman and again by Irving Thalberg, city of Tom Watson and Gregg Allman and Bert Lance and Jimmy Carter, --populists all, huzzah! From Peachtree Plaza to the White House, springing up from the ashes, born again --the place you have to go to get to almost every other place. The air crossroads of the western world, or at least those southernmost provinces of These United States --oh, Atlanta...
Banker Abboud, 49, also has liabilities. The $3.4 million loan that he approved for fellow Democrat Bert Lance still embarrasses him; and many officers have left First Chicago because Abboud has a short fuse-befitting a man who is 5 ft. 6 in. and expects everybody to share his own I-made-it-the-hard-way workaholism. But few question that he runs a top bank; last year First Chicago Corp.'s assets rose 14% to $22.6 billion. Or that he comes forth with some unstarchy ideas from behind his stiff collars and vested suits...
...male Georgia Mafia did not cotton to the brash, opinionated woman who served as his Assistant for Public Liaison-his emissary to women, ethnics and other demanding constituent groups. "A flake and a clown," some staffers grumbled openly when she made headlines with her impulsive acts-prematurely calling for Bert Lance's resignation, injudiciously using her office to round up guests for a fund raiser to pay off her old campaign debts, inviting homosexual activists to the White House. Only two weeks ago, she vehemently denied that her resignation was imminent. "If you reporters would quit bothering...