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...many resorts have increased by 80% or more. Though occupancy rates in the resort industry as a whole have been rising lately, they remain low in many places, which means that costly facilities are not always in full use. Says Tom Perine, president of Vacation Planning Inc. of Richmond, Ill., the largest timesharing promoter in the U.S.: "Timesharing in the computer industry was the only cost-effective way to utilize superexpensive equipment. We are bringing that concept to resorts...
Died. Earle Combs, 77, Hall of Fame centerfielder from the great days of the New York Yankees (1924-35); after a long illness; in Richmond, Ky. Nicknamed "the Kentucky Colonel" because of his prematurely gray hair and gentlemanly ways, Combs was the lead-off hitter who got on base, thereby enabling Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig to run up their imposing RBI records. A broken collarbone in 1935 ended his playing career, but he came back to coach his replacement, a new kid from the San Francisco Seals, Joe DiMaggio...
...Louisiana Purchase and dispatched the Lewis and Clark Expedition was also a multifarious taster of art, a dilettante. Lacking a theory, Thomas Jefferson was blessed with an eclectic curiosity about aesthetic experience. As architect, he drew up some of the most refined structures in all Georgian building-Monticello, the Richmond Capitol and an "Academical village," the university of his native Virginia. He also had a devouring and insistent eye for detail; designs for stair rails, coffee urns, goblets and garden gates flowed from his hand. He systematically assembled a library, "not merely amassing a number of books, but distinguishing them...
...fripperies of rococo as to promise him a new mode of architectural thought. There he is in Nîmes, entranced by the proportions of the Roman Maison Carrée, ordering a model of it, which, shipped back to Virginia, became the basis of the Capitol at Richmond...
...Baltimore Afro-American (circ. 28,000) is a semiweekly with regional editions for Washington, Richmond, New Jersey and the rest of the Northeast that bring its circulation up to 93,500. Founded in 1892, it ought to be known as the Murphy paper. Board Chairman John Murphy III, 60, is a third-generation proprietor, and 15 Murphy family members work for him. The Afro serves up rich portions of information on education, careers, consumerism and fashion, is keenly aware of black heritage subjects, carries a great deal of Third World news and has its own photographic morgue. Its generally gentlemanly...