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...hand-me-down celebrity. But Harold Washington was hardly a figure of renown, despite 16 years in the state legislature, one full term as a U.S. Representative from Illinois' First District, and re-election to Congress last fall. His $1.1 million war chest left him a comparative pauper in a municipal election touted as the most expensive in American history. (Byrne's campaign cache was about $10 million; Daley's fund was roughly $2 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Black Mayor for Chicago? | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...search for gold that brought the first voyages of discovery to the Caribbean. The intrepid explorers found little gold, but they fell upon a pauper's paradise of emerald seas, swaying palms and scented hillsides. Marveled Nicolo Syllacio, a writer who traveled with Christopher Columbus on his 1493 expedition to the islands of the New World: "The beauty of its mountains and the amenity of its verdure must be seen to be believed." The natural allure remains, but the modern quest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Caribbean: Troubles in a Pauper's Paradise | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...price, reportedly about $250,000, to the parent Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co., and assume the magazine's subscription liability of some $3 million. But it will share the magazine's operating costs with the Atlantic Richfield Foundation, whose donor, ARCO, four years ago bailed out another pauper of the press, Britain's Sunday Observer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Harper's Reborn | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

...perhaps one tie. They'll bus up to Dartmouth Wednesday night to face the Big Green--14-5-1 overall and awesome at home--come back to Bright for part II of The Game next Saturday, and then return North the following weekend to face the prince and the pauper: Clarkson (11-7; the conference's highest scoring team) and St. Lawrence (3-15--the cellar...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Standings on Thin Ice | 2/26/1980 | See Source »

...dangerously mad, a secret aficionado of cat juggling whose gift is for making audiences laugh uneasily. That is to say that he is, approximately, a white Richard Pryor, and how about casting the two of them to gether in a remake of The Prince and the Pauper? -John Skow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cat Catcher | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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