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Stories about shabby beggars who hoard secret fortunes are commonplace enough, but Eddie the Monkey Man, who died in his sleep last month at the age of 79, was unique. The son of a Jewish immigrant peddler in Pensacola, Fla., Eddie Bernstein lost both legs at the age of twelve when a train ran over him. He began riding around in a goat cart, selling newspapers. In the mid-'30s, he left the Depression-ridden South and moved to Washington, D.C., where he established himself on a wooden platform on F Street between 12th and 13th Streets. He joked...
...yards away. "Oh, my God! Look what's over there!" he yelled, and in moments he and his lone crew member were scooping up 55 survivors. Because of their quick action, only three others drowned. Weather was probably a factor in the misplaced landing; visibility in the Pensacola, Fla., area was close to the required one-mile minimum, and three Eastern Airlines pilots diverted to Mobile, Ala., that evening...
...moment he started his six-week odyssey, the main characteristic that impressed him was the pride of the men−pride in themselves and in their ships. To photograph the U.S. Navy for this week's cover story, TIME'S Dirck Halstead traveled from Norfolk, Va., to Pensacola, Fla., San Diego, Calif., Pearl Harbor and be yond. Everywhere he went he found officers and men eager to demonstrate what their ships could...
Gregory gave $228,000 to charities, including the First Baptist Church in Pensacola and the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children in Galveston, Texas, between 1974 and 1977. His First Bank of Macon County (Ala.) gave an unsecured $31,200 loan to the Atlanta-based Institutional Development Corp., which aids disadvantaged youths and has the strong backing of First Lady Rosalynn Carter. The same bank lent $32,400 to Robert Stapleton-husband of Jimmy Carter's sister Ruth-for the purchase of an evangelistic retreat in Denton, Texas...
...that political effort paid off for Gregory in numerous small attentions. Gregory drew Vice President Fritz Mondale to a $500-a-plate fund raiser in Pensacola in September. Gregory boasts of hobnobbing with the Carters on ten occasions since the President's Inauguration, a count partly substantiated by records in Washington. He twice attended soirees at the White House: one in March 1977 to honor British Prime Minister James Callaghan, and another in September to mark Carter's signing the Panama Canal treaties. Last June 23 he flew from Washington to a fund raiser in New York aboard...