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...charms of the Riviera, Biarritz, Menton, Nice, Sorrento, the Lido and Egypt are to be found in Boca Raton. International society demands Boca Raton, the premier of cosmopolitan resorts. The silvery sea . . . lazy lagoons. . . endless canals winding through a labyrinth of loveliness . . . unite to make living here almost beyond realness in its ideality...
...work at the St. Louis Archdiocese, though secure, paid little, and her pension is less than $1,500 a year. Yet Wilson allegedly indulged a taste for furs and designer clothes and held an expensive country-club membership. In 1970 she built a $100,000 home in Boca Raton, Fla., since sold. The Cardinal is said to have paid Wilson a secret church salary of up to $11,500 during a six-year period from 1969 to 1975 when she leased and furnished a luxury apartment on Chicago's Gold Coast. She now divides her time between...
...priests for official visits to Chicago and to pay his household expenses. The accounts were never audited by the church because they were intended for use at Cody's discretion. Cody is reported by the Sun-Times to have told associates that he paid for the Boca Raton home out of personal funds saved up over the years...
DIED. Joseph Curran, 75, booming-voiced founder and longtime president of the National Maritime Union of America; of cancer; in Boca Raton, Fla. Curran took to the sea at 16, got fired for leading his first strike in 1936 and founded the seamen's union the next year. A rough-and-tumble organizer, he ruled the union from 1937 to 1973, building membership to 100,000 after World War II. Fewer than 20,000 active seamen are members today...
...keep off the loan sharks. Their staggering losses in silver the past couple of months have forced them to go, stetson in hand, to bankers in the U.S. and abroad. The weekend after Silver Thursday, they showed up uninvited at the Reserve City Bankers Association convention in Boca Raton, Fla., to plead for help in meeting their debts. The brothers supposedly told leading bankers that they probably owed about $1.7 billion. Over cups of coffee and cold cheese sandwiches, the moneymen debated long into the night whether to give the Hunts a loan. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker made...