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...wrong, I wouldn't turn down a ticket for the finals. Going to the Spectrum tonight would be magnificent. If you're flying to Philadelphia and you have an extra ticket...well, the number's in the phone book, and my checkbook is open...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Nothing Would Be Finer | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...rights. LIFE has offered to pay the airfare to the reunion for the five brothers and sisters of Hostage James Lopez of Globe, but with no strings attached. Keough has accepted a flight to Wiesbaden from Boston's NBC affiliate, WBZ-TV. The Boston Globe blasted that as "checkbook journalism." Keough fought back by temporarily refusing to talk to the Globe, cooperating instead with the rival Herald American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Other American Hostages | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

Moreover, Epps made only a half-hearted attempt to straighten out the problems. Although Olive had left for good by February, Epps and Smith did not balance the checkbook until well into April--more than a month after the first $4000 loan from Cambridge Trust had paid off part of a bad debt. If HDNS could afford that much in loans, it could have paid for an accountant to make sense out of its books. Or Epps could have made a serious attempt to find Olive--who was working in a restaurant in Faneuil Hall--and demanded restitution...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: HDNS: Epps and Downs | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...more accurately, an open checkbook. One of the most beneficent Harvard contributors of his time, Gordon (along with other well-to-do alumni) is again gearing up to catalyze the University's most ambitious fund drive to date, an effort slated to rake in $250 million by mid-1984. Although Gordon's check will probably surpass many others, it pales in comparison to his other contribution: his influence on other wealthy Harvard alumni, corporations, and foundations. Now that inflation has become the scapegoat for almost every ill, the University is calling on men like Gordon to persuade the nation that...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime... ...I Only Need $250 Million | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...more accurately, an open checkbook. One of the most beneficent Harvard contributors of his time, Gordon (along with other well-to-do alumni) is again gearing up to catalyze the University's most ambitious fund drive to date, an effort slated to rake in $250 million by mid-1984. Although Gordon's check will probably surpass many others, it pales in comparison to his other contribution: his influence on other wealthy Harvard alumni, corporations, and foundations. Now that inflation has become the scapegoat for almost every ill, the University is calling on men like Gordon to persuade the nation that...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime... ...I Only Need $250 Million | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

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