Word: franks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even disclosing her sex. Some committee staffers considered this a whitewash, however, and leaked the story to several newspapers. But it did not become a national scandal until last week, when New York Times Columnist William Safire accused the committee of a "cover-up." Committee Chairman Frank Church called the charge "preposterous." Said he: "We had no evidence to suggest that she was a conduit of any kind. We had no evidence that she was used to get a hold on the President. Had we such evidence, we certainly would have included it." John Tower of Texas, the committee...
...campaign worker for Kennedy' are entirely contrived. My relationship with Jack Kennedy was of a close personal nature and did not involve conspiratorial shenanigans of any kind." She said she met Kennedy in Las Vegas in 1960 at a party given by "a friend." The friend was Singer Frank Sinatra; one former Kennedy aide understood that Sinatra and J.F.K.'s brother-in-law, Peter Lawford, owned a piece of a nightclub where Judy once worked as a hostess. A month after she met the President, Sinatra brought her together with Giancana, who later introduced her to Roselli. Both...
...because he had been a salaried accountant at Marlborough, Stamos because Marlborough was the dealer for his own paintings. Surrogate Midonick removed the three executors from the estate, voided all contracts between them and Marlborough, and assessed $9,252,000 in fines and damages against them, Marlborough Galleries and Frank Lloyd, 64, Marlborough's owner. The total included a fine of $3.3 million against Lloyd and Marlborough for contempt of court in selling a group of Rothkos in defiance of a court order. Arthur Richenthal, trial attorney for Reis and Stamos, called the verdict "overkill and legally erroneous...
That leaves Marlborough and Lloyd. But the New York gallery is only a small branch of the Liechtenstein-based financial labyrinth that Frank Lloyd (TIME, June 25, 1973) has built up over the years, and its American assets would probably not satisfy the judgment. In setting the contempt fine at $3.3 million, Surrogate Midonick said that Lloyd could pay it off by returning the paintings he sold to European investors and dealers in defiance of the court's 1972 injunction. But, says Harrow gloomily, this effort to make Marlborough disgorge may not work: the Rothkos involved are now worth...
LAMPPOST REUNION. A visceral bar-buddy reunion on the order of That Championship Season. The hero, possibly patterned on Frank Sinatra, is given tigerish animal magnetism by Gabriel Dell...