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...have taken him to Paris. "Andrew always had an air about him," says waiter Jim Allen, who knew Cunanan in San Diego. "'Out of my way--I'm really busy right now. I'm wearing very expensive clothes.' He had one of those large, checkbook-size wallets. He'd open it, and you'd see rows of platinum credit cards. They were all in his name...
...shortly be sent to Princeton. He names it Yonder (that's the easy part), learns to hoist anchor, percolate about the harbor, and dock again. Also to sail a bit, and what to do when the diesel fails: call for a tow, then call the diesel wizard, then deploy checkbook. After several seasons of costly maintenance, Coomer's master shipwright assumes a long face, reports rot and says the author had better decide how much he loves the boat...
Virtually no one with a checkbook was turned away from Bill Clinton's fund-raising party--not convicted felons, not Buddhist monks bearing someone else's money, not even a Russian mobster. But few of them felt the need to be quite as discreet as Carl Lindner, the banana king who had a bundle to drop in the last election...
...tell where the red ink is leaking. Mayor Joe Carollo, who took office last July and inherited the current financial mess, concedes that the $68 million deficit figure is little more than a guess, given the state of the city's books. "We know less about our checkbook than the average husband and wife do," says Thomas Tew, a lawyer advising the city...
...cotton gin (owned by the Terrys, of course) for a cup of coffee and joined the lottery pool on a lark, says they could not have held out much longer. "This month I really didn't even want to come to work," he says. "I opened the checkbook, and we were down to our last $136." Another winner, Gene Terry, 61, says he had got so far into debt that he had to put up his two small farms as security. "A lot of these farmers just could not have kept farming another year if they had not won," says...