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Style he had. He was born with it, and he displayed it at every stage of his life-as the heir to a savagely competitive spirit and a million-dollar trust fund from his father; as the wartime hero of PT109; as the student of power; as the driving politician who went from the House to the Senate to the White House. "Why do you want to be President?" he was asked in the summer of 1960. "Because that's where the power is," he replied...
Died. Jack ("Doc") Kearns, 80, boxing promoter behind six world champions, among them Mickey Walker, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, but none so great -or lucrative-as Jack Dempsey, whom Kearns met in 1917, within two years brought to the championship and later used to drum up the first million-dollar gates (against "Orchid Man" Georges Carpentier, Luis Angel Firpo); after a long illness; in Miami...
This kind of program has never been undertaken before in Harlem and it's easy to see why; even to get the Urban Corps underway ACT is planning to ask for a million-dollar government grant for more staff, new equipment, and more facilities for an increased number of Corpsmen...
...River, across from Columbus. Ga. All that day, members of the Chamber of Commerce had been stringing Christmas lights across the city's main street; a local radio station had hired a plane to bombard the town with colored pingpong balls that were exchangeable for merchandise at the million-dollar Phenix City Plaza Shopping Center; a weekly newspaper glowingly reported plans for the second annual Christmas parade, featuring "seven bands, 18 floats, clowns, entertainers, riders on horseback"; and the sounds and sights of building were everywhere. And all this good clean fun, all this civic enterprise, was taking place...
Died. John Christie, 80, a onetime Eton science master who devoted his million-dollar inheritance to founding the Glyndebourne Opera (in 1934) on his Sussex estate, turned it into a musical mecca where Britain's bluebloods enjoyed summer festivals of mostly Mozart; at Glyndebourne, England...