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...that his wants are conceived on a very grand scale. They have served to make him one of the richest manufacturers in England and an exemplar of the modern type of merchant. Yet he was born to relative poverty 46 years ago, the 13th and youngest child of a potter in Staffordshire. His schooling ended at the age of eight, when his father died, and he had to go to work as an apprentice in a pottery run by an older brother. He became an expert thrower on the wheel, but an attack of small pox led to an infection...
Some observers are tolerant of the Moonies. "I just wonder why we can't get more motivation like the Moon motivation in our own churches," says the Rev. Dan Potter, director of the Council of Churches of the City of New York, which nevertheless has refused to admit the Unification Church to its membership. Adds Potter: "We are all a collection of groups grown out of the insights of so-called heretics." Religious orders have long sequestered their initiates from the world, and ceaseless work can be seen as beneficial...
...coquettish, aging (73) heiress to the Kuhn, Loeb investment-banking fortune and longtime publisher, editor-in-chief and sole owner of the New York Post. In an authorized biography, Men, Money and Magic: The Story of Dorothy Schiff (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; $9.95), to be published in October, Author Jeffrey Potter quotes Dolly Schiff as admitting to a "relationship" with Roosevelt from 1936 to 1943-when she was in her thirties and he in his fifties and early sixties. "Apparently I was considered very sexy in those days, and he probably saw me as a sex object," says she. "This...
After New York Times Reporter Nan Robertson got hold of Potter's manuscript and broke the story last week, Schiff denied through her lawyer, Morris Abram, that she had ever had "a romance or an affair" with Roosevelt. But Potter-a fiftyish author of a children's book and a 1973 volume on oil spills, as well as a sometime escort of SchifFs-says that her remarks came from long taped conversations he held with her over the past two years. Publisher John J. Geoghegan reports that Schiff has twice read the galieys of Potter's manuscript...
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