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After Penn missed a chance to put the game away, Cornell drove to the Quaker 34 before Penn's Brad Heinz intercepted Chip Knapp's desperation bomb as time...
...main reasons for toting the mini-doodads: one-night stays and spotty service, which force many harried transients to become their own concierges. "Most vice presidents of a company would never have carried a travel steamer in the past," says Duane Knapp, former president of the firm that publishes United Airlines' in-flight catalog, "but now they don't have time to send their trousers out to be pressed...
When Charles Knapp bailed out last month as chairman of struggling Financial Corp. of America, a soft landing seemed likely. Last week it was learned that Knapp, whose high-risk growth strategy for the California-based savings and loan left the thrift holding too many unprofitable fixed-rate loans, had managed to secure a golden parachute from Financial Corp.'s board of directors in the form of a severance payment worth $2 million...
...regulators, who have been forced to pump loans worth more than $2 billion into F.C.A. since July to offset withdrawals by jittery depositors, are angry about the parting payment and are said to be pressing F.C.A.'s board to recoup the cash. That, however, will not be easy. Knapp arranged for the $2 million to be deposited in a foreign account. The money is probably beyond the Breach of U.S. authorities and F.C.A. share; holders. While Government regulators back home seek new ways to keep F.C.A. afloat, notably by backing the company's plan to sell $2 billion...
...performance itself is equally lukewarm. Rogers' portrait of the foster son Don is convincing, and Bob Knapp gives a highly amusing, if at times overdone, performance of Marion's boyfriend, Zappy. On the whole, however, most of the actors lack the energy the play calls for and resort to maudlin, melodramatic performances...