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...financial impact of the Superdome is felt far beyond its walls. The average Super Bowl patron will, by conservative estimate, spend $100 a day. The dome last year directly generated more than $2 million in tax revenues, plus an estimated $3 million from a 4% city hotel/motel tax that was levied to help pay for the behemoth. Thus while the building ran $5.5 million in the red. it brought in more than lagniappe to the local economy...
What Elizabeth settled after marriage was her career as a writer. She began writing short stories and, in remarkable time, had secured an influential patron (Rose Macaulay), an agent and some small renown. London literary life in the 1920s was both glittering and, with the right connections, easy to crack. "Inconceivably," Bowen wrote later, "I found myself in the same room as Edith Sitwell, Walter de la Mare, Aldous Huxley...
...patron saints...
...patron saint of pussycats...
...American aristocrat-public servant, who worked for six Presidents as diplomat, adviser and troubleshooter; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. The tall, courtly son of a Maryland Senator and Pulitzer-prizewinning author, Bruce had a Jeffersonian career-farmer, lawyer, author, state legislator, businessman, Army colonel, sportsman, art patron, raconteur and wine connoisseur. After running the European operations of the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) during World War II, Bruce helped rebuild the Continent as an administrator of the Marshall Plan and later as Ambassador to France under Harry Truman. A strong advocate of a united Europe...