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...pair of $50,000 cash gifts from Billionaire Howard Hughes to Nixon's pal Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo in 1969-70 is one of the strangest cases. Though the funds were allegedly for campaign purposes, Rebozo has testified that he never turned them over to anyone's campaign and in fact did not even tell Nixon of the gifts' existence. At his press conference last week, the President commended Rebozo for his handling of the cash, claiming that it was never used because 1) the donation was thought to be potentially embarrassing to Nixon in the light...
...Keun Pal, the opposition political leader's executive secretary, said in Washington that the telegram confirms that a Harvard fellowship granted to Kim last summer is still effective...
...Coincidence. There is yet an odder coincidence about the gifts. The second installment was paid to him, Rebozo testified, on July 3, 1970, at Nixon's San Clemente home. On the same date, committee sources said, Rebozo and Robert Abplanalp, another close presidential pal, were concluding a deal for the purchase of 2.9 acres of Nixon's San Clemente property, apparently to help the President finance his lavish estate. According to the same sources, the purchase price of that parcel of land was exactly $100,000. Rebozo denied that any of the Hughes money was used...
...restaurant and resort recorder. Those standbys of nostalgia, Gerald and Sara Murphy, crossed her path, but she merely remarks that they were perhaps "not as bonny or without troubles with each other" as they are usually depicted. Edmund Wilson appears, not as a mighty mind but as a comfortable pal who said sane things. Dorothy Parker was a close if infuriating friend. In 1937 she and Lillian traveled to Paris together. Parker was invited by the rich and famous to "tennis she didn't play and pools she didn't swim in." She thought, says Hellman sharply, "that...
...most promiscuous miss in town, well-nigh a nymphomaniac; that I was, get this, a Moaner, a Screamer, a Scratcher; that I was the Body-by-Fisher Fisher (I wasn't) and as a baby heiress I'd been promised to a son of my daddy's tycoon pal; that I was a Lesbian...