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...Edgar Hoover died last year, he left most of his estate of $551,500 to his longtime buddy Clyde A. Tolson, 72, who was with the FBI from 1928 till the day after Hoover died. Washington rumor had it that Tolson intended to turn Hoover's $100,000 Georgetown house into a private museum. If so, it will be an empty one, because Tolson has been quietly selling Hoover's art objects and other belongings at auction. In one consignment were four pairs of binoculars. For work or for Hoover's long days at the race track...
...Dean was "very outgoing and quite intelligent." Dean's grades, mostly A's and B's, were helped by self-hypnosis, which he taught himself to improve his concentration. Dean studied at Colgate, Ohio's College of Wooster and American University, and he graduated from Georgetown University Law Center...
...time to move, so Washington Hostess Barbara Howar, onetime social fixture of Lyndon Johnson's White House, decided to do things in her own noisy way. Instead of shifting all the junk from one place to another, she advertised a garage sale, opened the doors to her Georgetown establishment and attracted a block-long line of some 2,500 eager souvenir hunters. Barbara offered such items as: a leopard-skin rug ($60), a bathtub full of used cosmetics (two for 5?), a 125-piece set of Wedgwood china ($800), an old telephone that "Henry Kissinger made several important calls...
...mile relay we're going to be running against the University of Nebraska. Georgetown, Villanova and Tennessee--four out of the top ten two mile--relay teams in the country," co-captain Bob Clayton said last night...
Johnson insists that the offshore money pouring into the Caymans is legitimate investment capital. Yet local authorities are hardly equipped to deal with the abuses-including crime-that inevitably follow fast and loose cash. There is not even an economist in the Georgetown government. "We have written away to the United Nations to get one, but we haven't heard back from them yet," explains Johnson. Real estate developers have plans for a deep-water harbor, a resort-marina complex and a forest of condominiums. In short, one of the Caribbean's last untouched spots is rapidly experiencing...