Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's second overnight visit with an American family-and the Diehls' second visit from a President. In 1966 Lyndon Johnson stopped by for a few hours to look over Marywood, one of Iowa's showcase farms, on his way to a Democratic fund raiser in Des Moines...
...South American issue and Lillian Carter handle other issues." Many executives are disturbed by Carter's reliance on the advice of a close-knit Georgia Mafia. Says Thomas Sampson, managing partner in the Boston office of Arthur Andersen & Co., the accounting firm, and a New England fund raiser for Carter: "I don't think all the brains in the world are in the Northeast. But I don't think they are all in Georgia either...
...title role, has just opened. Last week the active octogenarian paused long enough to drop into the Beverly Hilton hotel and accept the first annual Jack Benny Memorial Award from the March of Dimes. While Ann-Margret, Bob Hope and some 700 others at the $125-a-plate fund raiser looked on, Frank Sinatra presented Burns with his newest trophy: a large but empty humidor. "The award will keep Jack's memory alive," promised George. "And it'll keep me alive. I can put enough cigars in the humidor to last me another 30 to 40 years...
...farmer's wife tossed a little do in her Middleburg, Va., backyard-and charged $35 a couple admission. And why not? Hostess Elizabeth Taylor Warner was sponsoring a political fund raiser for Republican Gubernatorial Candidate John Dalton. Because of a painful flare-up of bursitis, Liz, clad in blue jeans and red silk slippers, hobbled about on a cane. Before giving a brief welcoming speech, she impulsively went for a helicopter ride with Husband John Warner and the Daltons, sweeping low over her 160-year-old farmhouse and 2,000 acres of pasture land. "Being in a helicopter...
...certainly calm the alumni; after last spring's debacle, Bok is hardly likely to appoint anyone as unsettling to the old-timers as Peck. As a matter of fact, Pittenger's departure makes Reardon the logical choice. Popular with students, a long-time athletic recruiter and the head fund-raiser for the new athletic complex, he gets along with the athletes and, more importantly, the money that keeps the department in business. But predictably, neither Reardon nor Bok will say anything to the press; the newspaper leaks that torpedoed Peck's chances are apparently fresh in both their minds...