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Thus began a financial transaction that continues to attract scrutiny (see chart). The property in which Ferraro held a half-interest was a two-story brick commercial building at 231 Centre Street in Lower Manhattan. She and Manny Lerman, a longtime business associate of her husband's, had bought the building on May 1, 1978, at what Ferraro says was a bargain price: $175,500. Each put up $25,450 in cash. The balance of $124,605 was met by a mortgage, an obligation that they split at $62,300 each...
...face value here, he said, "as long as they pull their own oar." Clements pulled his own oar. He built up an oil-drilling business called Sedco. The Sedco building is not a shiny tower but a set of refurbished woody offices housed in the shell of the first brick school in Dallas. The books that surrounded him were part of an 8,000-volume library of Texan history and lore that Clements has been collecting since the 1940s...
Perhaps the most morbid of America's national landmarks was set ablaze last week in Dallas. Arsonists started a fire in the basement of the old Texas School Book Depository, the red brick seven-story structure, now the Dallas County administration building, from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President Kennedy in 1963. Because the decades-old sprinkler system had been turned off for repairs, flames made their way through the building walls. It took 100 fire fighters two hours to control the blaze, which damaged only the first two floors of the structure. "Whoever did it might...
...production restores part of Williams' original final act and dispenses with some of the changes that Director Elia Kazan urged upon the playwright for the Broadway production. The net effect is to retain the beefed-up dimensions of Maggie and Big Daddy from Broadway, but to leave Brick, at the end, a little more stuck in what Williams describes as a "state of spiritual disrepair...
Otherwise, Director Jack Hofsiss (who staged The Elephant Man) has done little more than transfer the play cleanly to the small screen and keep our eyes riveted on the performers. In this case, that is enough. Though Tommy Lee Jones, as Brick, lacks the brooding charisma of Paul Newman in the 1958 movie version, he provides a rare sight: a Brick who actually looks and talks like the ex-football player he is supposed to be. (Jones was an all-Ivy, all-East offensive guard at Harvard in the 1960s.) Kim Stanley (who played Maggie in the 1958 London production...