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...Kamala developed tuberculosis, so she was sent to Switzerland to convalesce. Indira went with her, to two bleak years at a school near Geneva; then, after Kamala's death, she went on to Somerville, a women's college at Oxford. One relief from her loneliness was a penniless but galvanizing Indian student in London, Feroze Gandhi...
...acre New Jersey estate worth $4 million and a 20-room Manhattan apartment, also worth $4 million. They sued again last week to prevent De Lorean from selling or transferring his 48-acre California estate, valued at $4 million. Without that money, said his lawyers, De Lorean was "penniless." Said Weitzman of his once extravagant client: "He has been brought to his knees...
CHAD HUMMEL portrays the penniless, flippantly cynical Jamie with the appropriate swagger and charm. He is a little too confident, through, for a dissipated libertine whose aspirations have all plummeted. Throughout the play he talks loudly and eagerly and when he sits down he slings his leg over his chair and swings it. But all of a sudden in the last scene, he turns into an inebriated mass of insecurity. The quintessential drunkard, he teeters and stumbles as he walks and rolls his eyes as he declares: "'My name is Might Have Been...
Inventor Josepho, who is a Socialist only three years removed from penniless Russian immigrancy, will act consistently. Half of his million he will devote to general charity; half "to helping my brother inventors to similar success...
...Stamford, Conn., a woman married to a Fortune 500 executive locked herself into their Lincoln Continental every Saturday night to escape her husband's kicks and punches. She did not leave him because she mistakenly feared he could sue for divorce on ground of desertion and she, otherwise penniless, would get no alimony...