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...Lyons Award was first given in 1964 in honor of Louis M. Lyons, who served as Nieman Foundation curator for 25 years. Past recipients of the award include Zwelakhe Sisulu, a South African editor, Tom Renner, a reporter for Newsday who uncovered stories on organized crime, and Violeta Chamorro, publisher of the Nicaraguan opposition paper La Prensa...
MAFIA PRINCESS by Antoinette Giancana and Thomas C. Renner Morrow; 304 pages...
Still, as Antoinette has recounted to Co-Author Thomas Renner, growing up as a Mafia princess was scarcely an elevating experience. Her first taste of the savagery that pervaded Giancana's world came when she knocked over his pet objet, a kitschy female figurine clutching her wind-blown skirt. Giancana's response was to beat his young daughter with his belt...
Bankers believe it will also take further drops in interest rates before consumers start taking out more loans. Says Robert W. Renner, chairman of the Citizens State Bank in Hartford City (pop. 8,000), Ind.: "I really think we're going to have to get down to the 12% to 13% range before the typical consumer comes back to see us." The Citizens State Bank last week made only one auto loan at 17.5% interest. A year ago, it was making twelve to 14 such loans a week...
...salons. A couple of these hybrid records-like The Cleveland Symphonic Winds lighting into Handel, Bach and Hoist (Telarc Records)-played at decent volume on a quiet evening could clear an entire neighborhood. "These hybrid records are not as good as full digital recordings," says Telarc's Jack Renner, "but they are a great deal better than conventional recordings...