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...Kennedy has a well-deserved reputation for being a tightwad, despite his income of roughly $700,000 a year, the main source of which is a blind trust. (Staffers have had to argue with him for even small raises.) But where his family is concerned he spends freely: $500,000 for his McLean house in 1968, $100,000 for the apartment in Boston in which Joan lives and $75,000 in 1961 for the white frame house on Squaw Island, about a mile from the Kennedy family compound at Hyannis Port. He is at Squaw Island almost every weekend during...
...based International Herald Tribune and a former A.P. correspondent. U.P.I. reporters have grown accustomed to being slightly overworked and less well paid than their counterparts at A.P. Remembers Dave Oestreicher, 49, national editor of the New York Daily News and a 15-year U.P.I. veteran: "The company ran a tightwad operation and was proud of it." For example, in the 1950s at least one U.P.I. bureau supplied its reporters with three-minute egg timers for longdistance calls. By the time the sand in the tiny hourglass ran out, says Oestreicher, "if you hadn't got the story...
...Duryea, minority leader in the state assembly, is proposing a freeze on local tax rates as he opposes Democratic Governor Hugh Carey's bid for reelection. Duryea also proposes cutting state taxes by $2.2 billion (20%) over four years. Carey, meanwhile, is trying to portray himself as a tightwad and his G.O.P. foes as big spenders. Accepting his nomination last week, Carey denounced "the wretched record of Republican recklessness" and asked: "Who raised taxes eight times in 16 years? They did. And who cut taxes by a billion dollars in the last two years...
...fashioned baseball writing concentrated on such issues. Was the manager a sour drunk? Was the superslugger a tightwad? No matter. Write only about the games. Emotion, indeed humanity, was irrelevant. You can read a season of sports pages from 1951 without learning anything of the interplay between the fading patriarch (DiMaggio) and the bucolic Wunderkind (Mantle...
Scrooge of the Airwaves Jack Benny, 39 going on 80, has finally met his match in parsimony-the Internal Revenue Service. Benny, who for more than 60 years has capitalized on his radio/TV reputation as the ultimate tightwad to amass a fortune in seven figures, is now being sued for back taxes by Uncle...