Word: stapletons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Galveston, Texas, between 1974 and 1977. His First Bank of Macon County (Ala.) gave an unsecured $31,200 loan to the Atlanta-based Institutional Development Corp., which aids disadvantaged youths and has the strong backing of First Lady Rosalynn Carter. The same bank lent $32,400 to Robert Stapleton-husband of Jimmy Carter's sister Ruth-for the purchase of an evangelistic retreat in Denton, Texas...
...last spring the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued cease and desist orders against Gregory's five banks, charging unsound practices. State bank examiners said the loan to Robert Stapleton was "substandard"; they initially wrote off the loan to Institutional Development Corp. as a "loss," but it was later repaid. Gregory's bank in Macon County closed in January. Another bank, in Wilcox County, Ala., closed in March. On Good Friday, Gregory and Vonna Jo were indicted on Alabama felony charges that they accepted deposits at a bank that was about to be closed...
...Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, doctors finally removed the bullet lodged near his spinal cord. It had cut spinal nerves, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors gave him less than a fifty-fifty chance of regaining full use of his legs. President Carter's sister, Ruth Stapleton, who had presided over Flynt's celebrated conversion last fall, flew in to Atlanta and called him "one of my good Christian friends." Sometime Comedian Dick Gregory visited, and so did Kennedy Assassination Theorist Mark Lane. Fellow Pornographer Al Goldstein, publisher of Screw magazine, arrived in a chauffeured black...
Sister Ruth Carter Stapleton, 47, is doing very well as an author. Sales of her two books, The Gift of Inner Healing and The Experience of Inner Healing, amount to some 185,000 hard-cover copies. Her estimated $160,000 income is turned over to Stapleton's nonprofit religious corporation, Behold, Inc. Jimmy's other sister, Gloria Carter Spann, 51, reportedly received a $50,000 advance to compile a book of her mother's letters from India, Away from Home: Letters to My Family...
Minnelli is only the latest in a long line of actresses savaged by Simon. He has described Maureen Stapleton as inhabiting "a large, amorphous body out of which protrude flipperlike limbs and a face without a single redeeming feature." To Simon, Maggie Smith resembles "an upstart rooster aspiring to barnyard supremacy." Glenda Jackson "has the looks of an asexual harlequin." Most leading ladies suffer Simon silently, but after he characterized Sylvia Miles as a "party girl and gate crasher," she dumped a plate of food on him in a Manhattan restaurant...