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...only Councilor to win Harvard administrators' contributions, Mayor Sullivan raised $34,930.16 and spent $14,786. Associate Vice President for State and Community Affairs Jacqueline O'Neill, gave $200 to Sullivan with her husband, Thomas P. O'Neill III. Another donor was Robert H. Scott, Harvard's new financial vice president...
...ratings changes are highly significant in the televangelism industry, because viewers form what ministries term their "donor base." The faithful TV audience is a mainstay of ministry income, providing a steady flow of gifts -- commonly $10 or $20 a contributor. The names and addresses of donors are carefully preserved in computer banks and used in direct-mail donation pitches, another major source of ministry income. At the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries headquarters, for example, workers used to extract some $2.5 million in monthly donations from occasional donors. That amount has now been cut in half...
...glittering prize, with its daily TV show, its all-day religious cable service transmitted to 13 million homes, and the splashy, 2,300-acre Heritage USA theme park, the ministry's entertainment centerpiece. PTL's Hargrave denied at the bankruptcy meeting that Falwell had usurped PTL's 518,000-donor mailing list and that checks made out to PTL had gone to the Lynchburg ministry. Bakker loyalists remain unconvinced. Said Robert Zanesky, the lawyer for a group of PTL contributors intent on removing Falwell: "His credibility stinks." Says Ryan Hovis, a bankruptcy lawyer representing Bakker: "No stockholder in Chrysler would...
...touch with Buckley's captors. So in May, North raised the $200,000 from Perot. He then described the plan in a June 7, 1985, memo to McFarlane. The $200,000, he indicated, would only be a kind of down payment; eventually $2 million would be needed from "the donor" to rent a yacht to bring the hostages to Cyprus, to set up a safe house for them on the island and, apparently, to pay additional bribes...
...week's end both patients were sitting up in chairs, and House had even enjoyed his first post-op hamburger. House had been happy to serve as both organ donor and recipient, said his mother Joyce Plesic. "He said if someone could help him, he should help someone else." Couch's wife Peggy said she was pleased that her husband might have a chance to meet the man who gave him his heart. Doctors say that get-together may occur this week...