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...suddenly decided that it needed a radioisotope laboratory, promptly put up $52,000 to install it. Hearing that an S.M.U. graduating class wanted to give the university a set of chimes but could not raise enough money, she told the seniors to go ahead, and picked up the tab herself. In a brief talk before one of the Fondren Lectures, she casually-and unexpectedly-announced that she was going to donate $1,000,000 to give S.M.U. the science building it had long wanted...
...Elvis hit is "Too Much," which in the three weeks since it has been recorded has moved into second place across the country and is threatening the very good number one song "Young Love." Both recordings of this, one by the Southern Gentleman Sonny James and the other by Tab Hunter (his first record), have sold about two million copies...
More puzzling than the bad grades was the fact that John, in Chicago a steadfast member of the Presbyterian Church choir, was getting a reputation for being a big and wild spender. He shoveled money around like snow, ostentatiously picked up the tab at parties and restaurants, jazzed around town in a new $3,500 Oldsmobile convertible. When his friends asked him where he was getting all his cash, John always brightly shot back that old gag, "I robbed a bank." It was great for laughs...
...wanted was enough to last me one school year, about $2500. I didn't know it would be so darn much more than I needed. That's the reason I started spending it like I did. I just threw it around and picked up the tab for everyone. I didn't like to see other students spending money they had grubbed for on frivolous things...
Flee Now ... In Santa Fe. N.M., after two convicts kidnaped him, hijacked his auto, escaped from prison and put 450 miles on the car before getting caught, Penitentiary Guard Jose A. Vigil billed the state for their jaunt at 8? a mile, faced having to pay the tab himself after the attorney general's office stated that the car had been used "on an un authorized trip...