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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Morgenthau, only one-fourth of this sum has been raised...
...copy of the musical arrangement of Over the Rainbow, a pair of loaded dice given to her by Humphrey Bogart (purchased by Actress Lily Tomlin for $1,200), Judy's The Wizard of Oz scrapbook, and the beaded silk jacket she wore at Carnegie Hall. The highest sum -$60,000-was shelled out for Garland's 1953 black Mercedes-Benz 3005 coupe. Total take: $250,000. Would the star herself have approved? Says Sid Luft, Garland's third husband and the initiator of the auction: "Judy would have loved the production, the hoopla and the people...
...cannot sum him up. You cannot go back to him for Government programs," said Malone. But in Jefferson is profound thought, curiosity, reason, taste, eloquence and the pursuit of excellence...
Although the new rules have stopped the huge fat-cat giving of the past, the rich have other ways of affecting political campaigns. They can contribute up to $5,000 to any of the 1,828 political action committees (PACs), which in turn can hand that sum on to candidates. Corporations, by soliciting their employees and stockholders, can form PACs too. Since the mid-'70s, companies and their trade associations have formed some 1,200 of these committees. PACS contributed more than $60 million to the 1978 election campaigns for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives alone. The apparent...
...manuscript, and paperback rights were sold for $750,000. In addition, Paramount has bought the movie rights for $300,000; Christina is getting $200,000 to write the screenplay; and her husband, David Koontz, who has produced mostly commercials up until now, is getting another large but undisclosed sum to produce the film. In more than 40 years in Hollywood, Joan herself never saw such a sudden avalanche of dollars...