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Last week President Reagan read about Colf's plight and tried to reach him at the Kerrigan home. The President, Kerrigan says, said that Colf should throw future solicitations "in the trash" and called him "a great American...
...They kept on sending letters that said, 'Give me so much money,' " recalls Gerald Colf, 84. "So I did the job I was asked to do." Indeed he did. Colf, a retired home contractor who lived in Hermosa Beach, Calif., gave away more than $4,200 of his life savings last year to 27 conservative groups that solicited him by mail. Overdrawn at his bank, Colf began selling old newspapers for cash and scrounging in trash cans for food...
...Colf's plight came to the attention of his granddaughter, Judy Kerrigan, 36, who lives in Reseda. She recovered about $1,400 of his contributions from such beneficiaries as Voters for Reagan and Americans for Reagan. But other groups failed to reply to Kerrigan's entreaties...
...impressed Colf, who now lives in a retirement home in Reseda, put the President's photograph on the wall of his room. Said Colf proudly: "I never wrote a check for a Democrat...
...woman suggested that the work for piano four hands-two on the keyboard (Lukas Foss) and two with mallets on the strings inside--be called "Murder in the Cathedral." In "Air Antique," cellist Howard Colf's delicate, ghostly left hand pizzicati held the audience literally gaping. Assisting countertenor Richard Levitt transformed his voice into a dazzling clarion in an improvisation on an Italian madrigal, "Dolcissima mia vita...