Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest expense is the $400,000 in interest he owes annually on the $5 million he borrowed from five banks to finance his many operations. In addition, Lance must meet payments on his real estate mortgage, which he listed in January at $340,000. Lance has vastly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle; he has three Georgia homes: a 40-room mansion in Atlanta, a $100,000 house in Calhoun and a $200,000 retreat at Sea Island...
Playboy Enterprises has long written off nearly all of Hefner's lavish living costs as promotional expenses. The Internal Revenue Service has filed a claim against the company for $7.7 million in additional taxes for the years 1970 through 1972; Hefner's expenses, among many other things, are involved. He has put the 54-room Playboy mansion in Chicago up for sale (asking price: $2.5 million) and moved to a 29-room Xanadu in Beverly Hills; Daniels flies out every other week to brief him, but otherwise they rarely confer on day-to-day operations. There is talk...
...more reminiscent of Allen Drury than John Dos Passes, it does present a complex narrative with surprising clarity. The Washington settings, from the Oval Office to the Georgetown salons, lend a nice air of authenticity. So do the script's lavish accounts of such Watergate minutiae as H.R. Haldeman's feud with Rose Mary Woods and Gordon Liddy's call-girl schemes. The heaps of dirt stuffed into the show amply convey the moral squalor...
...first flush of his success, Elvis lived with the crazy vigor of a good ole boy who just had the whole world tucked snugly into the back pocket of his overalls. He surrounded himself with home-town cronies, kept them fed and cared for, dispensed lavish gifts. He gave away luxury cars-particularly the Cadillacs he doted on-like gumdrops. After a while, though, the cronies became heavies-bodyguards, procurers-and the gifts bribes to buy loyalty, or silence. He courted a girl, Priscilla Beaulieu, he had met during his Army hitch. He persuaded her father to let her come...
DIED. Lou Walters, 81, father of TV newswoman Barbara Walters and a nightclub impresario who founded New York's famed Latin Quarter in 1942; of a heart attack; in Miami. Impish and softspoken, the London-born Walters made and spent millions on his lavish supper clubs in Boston, New York and Miami. His cavalcade of performers included Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Milton Berle and Mae West. A hit-and-miss Broadway producer, Walters went bankrupt in 1966 when his deals started to sour. In his glory days, his celebrity circle surrounded Daughter Barbara, who was never awed by stars...