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...steel executives, used his $50,000 salary (he also gets a generous expense account) to patronize nightclubs from Manhattan to Los Angeles and in many other ways enjoy the good life. In addition to his seven-room fieldstone home in a Pittsburgh suburb, he bought a second house in Palm Springs, and spent much of his time there...
...caressing the strings. But Harpo Marx, who died Sept. 28 at the age of 75, left his widow, Susan Fleming Marx, a down-to-earth estate, worth between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000, in stocks, royalties, a $200,000 home and a $200,000 ranch, both near Palm Springs. Pending settlement of the estate, she and her four children were granted a $4,000-a-month allowance by the court...
Half a Loaf or Nothing. Florida's most famous precedent for such deals in capital cases arose from the baffling disappearance of respected Palm Beach Judge Curtis E. Chillingworth and his wife in 1955. When Prosecutor Philip O'Connell finally cracked the case six years later, still with not even a body as evidence, he did so by granting immunity to a thug named Bobby Lincoln, who brazenly testified that he had bludgeoned the Chillingworths and drowned them in the Atlantic. He had been hired by Judge Joseph A. Peel, said Lincoln, because Peel feared that Chillingworth...
Tiny Lebanon's flamboyant capital sprouts new buildings like palm trees, boasts more Mercedeses than mullahs, lures thousands of tourists and happily shares its year-round sunshine with courtesans in bikinis as well as desert Arabs in burnooses. But Beirut's most beneficent climate is the climate of trade, the heritage of its Phoenician forebears. In the Levantine landscape nothing seems to grow faster or greener than the city's banks...
Earlier, the youth slashed the hand of a Lowell House student, Thomas L. Robbins '65, in a scuffle near the Boylston Hall entrance to Harvard Yard. Robbins was treated at the Health Center for a cut palm...