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...trouble finding private drillers who were ready to deal. One of the tracts Fall exchanged for private favors was a spot in Wyoming called Teapot Dome. Meanwhile, Charlie Forbes, head of the Veterans' Bureau, was traveling about the country, letting contracts for federal hospitals. He was generous with the taxpayers' money, paying inflated prices to grateful builders and then pocketing the difference. Forbes also liked to sell Government surplus goods cheap and then restock empty warehouses dear. The buyers, the sellers and Forbes all profited handsomely...
...means free from care. Like Job, he suffered from boils. A beloved granddaughter was married to an alcoholic. As friends and relatives died, the old survivor came to feel, he said, like a tree without branches. He was plagued by financial worries. But nothing could cramp his generous heart. When things were at their worst, he was likeliest to buy an elegant $135 watch for one granddaughter, a pianoforte for another...
Uncle Tom's Cabin. Generous Uncle Tom designs and builds a play cabin in the backyard for his favorite niece Eliza...
...bravura portrayal of Managing Editor Walter Burns by Veteran Actor John Randolph (who as a real-life Bronx correspondent for the New York Post once reported the burning-down of his family home-"and rewrite got the facts wrong"). Alas, though the pay ($300 a week) is relatively generous, the Santa Fe Festival Theater can attract few middle-aged supporting actors. Thus timeworn newsroom veterans are played by men mostly in their 30s who appear to be in their 20s. That casting undoes a work as grubbily detailed as The Front Page...
...trickled down to train aspiring players in 1980. Even more galling, the 375 memberships in the blueblooded club, which cost only $17.50 in annual dues, were said to be worth the equivalent of $200,000 in subsidies and perks over a member's lifetime. One side benefit: a generous allotment of Centre Court tickets that could be scalped for up to $1,200 apiece before the finals. Summed up London Observer Columnist Adam Raphael: "There is no reason why the members of the All England Club should live off the backs of English tennis players...