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...appeared before the President's Commission on Organized Crime in Washington last week, he became the first "lawyer gone bad," in the parlance of law-enforcement officials, to give public testimony to the Federal Government. Appearing under heavy security--as well as a grant of immunity from prosecution--the dapper former attorney, who is serving a 15-year sentence for heroin possession, fielded questions with a sometimes nonchalant candor during a two-hour session...
...Massachusetts Hall jedimaster said he was "completely, 100 percent, you betcha" satisfied that the dapper prince could walk the halls of the News Office's plush Holyoke Center penthouse, appearing to be doing nothing but undoubtedly working with the quiet efficiency common to all Harvard administrators, just as well as the slightly less dapper Rosen...
Senator Jesse Helms was too straitlaced. Ted Turner was too brash and boisterous. But dapper Laurence Tisch was just the kind of dance partner CBS wanted. The entertainment company announced last week that it had invited Tisch, 62, the billionaire chairman of Loews, to join the CBS board of directors. In addition, Loews, a New York-based conglomerate that owns a hotel chain, sells insurance and manufactures Kent cigarettes and Bulova watches, will increase its stake in CBS from 11.7% of the network's stock to as much as 25%. CBS was emphatic that the deal with Tisch was entirely...
During his 14-day stay, said Rolf, he found a person very different from the dapper, even avuncular man-about-town he had seen in photographs. His father was intellectually alert and still on top of his Greek and Latin, Rolf recalled, "but he was a haunted creature," possessed by suicidal thoughts. At the same time, the doctor seemed to regret nothing. "There are no judges," Rolf recalled his father saying of his pursuers, "only avengers...
...slightly different in wearing quality, and a 26-ft. band was fixed in place before engineers rematched the stone. That band is noticeable today. In December 1884, a 100-oz. aluminum cap was placed on the spike-shaped peak. Then on a wintry Saturday morning in February, the dapper President Chester Arthur, according to a contemporary account, "laid his silk hat at his side, slowly removed his heavy doeskin gloves and deposited them in it, held his eyeglasses on his nose" and read the official dedication. Mathew Brady, the famous photographer of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil...