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Barbara Connell heads the Daystar Care Center, a nursing home in Cairo, Ill. Her father-in-law, 85, suffers from congestive heart failure and must spend $190 a month on medications, including the diuretic Lasix, produced by West Germany's Hoechst-Roussel. The senior Connell's income from Social Security totals just $350 a month, and since Medicare does not cover prescription costs, he has begun drawing on savings to pay his pharmacy bills. "If he didn't have those savings, he'd really be in bad shape," says Barbara...
...strong man could earn in a month delivering milk or teaching high school algebra. But last week it seemed that matters had gotten out of hand. Spyros Skouras, the sovereign lord of 20th Century-Fox, had summoned Writer-Producer-Director Leslie Stevens to a staff lunch. Stevens, whose Daystar Corp. forms a powerful fealty under the Skouras fief, sent a proxy, and Skouras, growing wroth at the breach of fealty, canceled Fox's contract with Daystar. Said Stevens, jousting back with a $5,877,500 damage suit: "The noon meeting of March 22 may well turn...
Realized Abilities. Today, Stevens' Daystar Productions-which he shares with a shrewd former talent agent named Stanley Colbert-has a contract to make three movies for 20th Century-Fox. (For each of these movies, besides Daystar's cut of the profits, Stevens can get $50,000 as writer, another $25,000 as director. Colbert draws $75,000 as producer.) Daystar also has a TV production contract with Fox, has an ambitious plan for pilot films. Daystar is also one of the financial angels for a personal management firm that Stevens expects will "bring many young people more rapidly...
...brighter day is dawning," cried the famed Horace Mann, "and education is its daystar." To the 200 educators who had come from all over the country to Cincinnati that day in 1858, the words of the main speaker were not just empty grandiloquence. One year earlier, they had met to form the first national organization that the U.S. teaching profession had ever known...
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