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...citizens of no other nation give so generously as Americans, but it I still hurts a little bit. Most painless way yet has been discovered by the Combined Arts of San Diego (COMBO), a group of resolute citizens dedicated to resuscitating the city's cultural activities...
...COMBO'S prescription is to ask mer chants and well-to-do residents to do nate virtually anything they can part with-except cash. Individuals are in vited to turn over their summer homes when they do not plan to use them. As for businesses, airlines are asked to give away empty seats on long-distance flights, laundries to volunteer a few weeks of free washing - all taxdeductible. Then everything is auctioned off at a gala dinner attended by the city's best people...
...result last week was one of the merriest fund-raising functions ever. At San Diego's community auditorium, the auction was set in motion at 7:30 p.m. by COMBO President Robert Peterson and did not stop until the last thump of the gavel at 3:30 a.m. Meanwhile, 750 diners ate, drank, laughed and shouted themselves hoarse...
...auction's end, COMBO happily counted up the proceeds. They amounted to $230,000-enough to buy the symphony a portable acoustical shell, to finance an opera production of Faust, and to start construction on a new rehearsal hall for the Old Globe Theater...
There's a little place in East Cambridge--it used to be a synagogue--where Portuguese Americans whoop it up every Friday night. Ernie Souza's combo plays in one corner and a bar stretches along the back wall. As Al Vellucci enters, the noise and the laughter shifts towards the door...