Word: downers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eighteen months ago, a California designer named Susan Downer received a chatty telephone call from her three children (ages eleven, six and four), who were visiting her divorced husband in Manhattan. It was the last time she ever heard from them. When Mrs. Downer drove to the Los Angeles airport to pick them up, they were not aboard their designated flight. Ex-Husband Seth Gerchberg, it later developed, had remarried, liquidated his assets, obtained a passport and disappeared with the children. Since then Mrs. Downer and her second husband have spent $40,000 on a futile investigative legal odyssey that...
...John A. Downer '79 said yesterday continued price hikes could prevent students from applying here, creating a less heterogenous student body...
...Harvard becomes "a school which caters to the rich, it will lose diversity that can't be measured in economic terms," Downer said, adding that his own family is in a high enough income bracket to absorb the increase...
...committee of 20 prominent businessmen, including Charles F. Adams, chairman of the board of Raytheon Company, Joseph P. Downer, executive vice president of the Atlantic Richfield Co., Allen E. Puckett, vice president of Hughes Aircraft Co., and Donald H. McLaughlin, chairman of the Executive Committee of Homestake Mining Company, have formed the national committee to raise money for the center which will utilize their extensive contacts in the business community...
...wheel them in, they can wheel them out." Such anecdotes diminish both biographer and biographee and make the reader wonder why this sorrowful woman was worth 700 pages of heavy industry. Is the neon gossip meant to illuminate the warts, Judy and all? Or is it the mandatory downer for some future wide-screen version of Garland starring, say, Liza Minnelli...