Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office right on the main floor, where people could easily get at him. He adopted a risky, go-go strategy financing agribusiness operations. One of Lance's safest deals: lending a total of $4.7 million to the Carter family's thriving peanut firm. Says King Cleveland, former chairman of NBG: "He got more new projects going in 24 months than we'd had in the previous 24 years...
...Another production, The Betsy, about infighting in the auto industry, is, naturally, being shot in Detroit. Much footage for EMI Limited's The Deer Hunter, a blue-collar special starring Robert De Niro, was shot in a bowling alley in Struthers, Ohio, and a U.S. Steel plant in Cleveland. Bette Davis is starring in Harvest Home, a Universal Production for NBC being shot in Conneaut, Ohio...
Patrick Burns, 28, and his wife Dawn, 25, shopped for four months for a suburban house but settled for a $33,000 home in a Cleveland neighborhood they do not especially like. The monthly mortgage payments of $299 will be such a strain that they have decided to add no more children to their present two. Besides that, says Dawn, "we budgeted the food shopping so that no snacks, no beer and especially no McDonald's are on the list." Even so, they could not meet the payments if Patrick did not collect frequent overtime...
...ombudsman of the Louisville Times and Courier-Journal, simply blacks out with his felt-tip pen any anatomical displays that trouble him. "They call me the mad brassiere artist," says he. Other papers have for years had policies banning or limiting adult-film advertising, among them the Detroit News, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Miami Herald. Wrote Herald Executive Editor John McMullan last June in welcoming the new puritan revival: "A newspaper, after all, is only a guest in your home...
...tune, and along with two others forms "the Big Three." The second is the 1910 Sweet Caporal card of Philadelphia Athletics Pitcher Eddie Plank, whose printing plate broke during production, making the card a rarity currently worth $1,900. The third, worth $1,500, is the card of Cleveland Second Baseman Napoleon ("Larry") Lajoie that was issued by the Goudey Gum Co. as a special edition in 1934 when several collectors complained of Lajoie's omission the year before. (Most 1934 Goudey gum cards are worth about...