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Cherry took over as bank president. Church, who, with her husband Hermie has a collection of two dozen Harley-Davidsons, became president of Keystone Mortgage. The trio own almost every business in town, including the hardware store, gas station and motorcycle-repair shop. The bank's $400,000 in annual taxes provide two-thirds of the town's revenue...
...drama heightened last week after Church paid $2.5 million bail and was confined to her ranch. Cherry has not been charged, but is offering something of a hillbilly defense around town, claiming auditors have attempted to oust her and Church because the women are not Ivy Leaguers...
That plays to local resentment of federal agents, which is running high, in part because almost everybody will suffer from the bank's shutdown. The town government has already laid off a third of its workers, including the town manager, and is down to two police officers. During the town-council meeting last Thursday, Cherry, who is also mayor, doubled her fists and vowed that if anyone tried to make her resign her city post, "I'll give 'em some knuckle puddin'." She had a request for the council. Now that she has lost her job and her $4 million...
Beate likewise hasn't tried anything like the at-home parties that established Ann Summers' female client base. Ironically, the first two Ann Summers shops were opened in London in 1970 by Swinging '60s man-about-town Kim Caborn-Waterfield, an actor who squired the now deceased blond bombshell Diana Dors. Caborn-Waterfield envisioned a chain of sex supermarkets patterned after Beate Uhse's. The shops were bought a year later by Gold Group International, whose holdings include a number of British soft-porn magazines and which is owned by managing director Gold's father and uncle...
Beate Uhse is the grandmother of safe sex in Europe, having opened her first sex shop in the northwestern town of Flensburg in 1962. At 79, she still heads the company's board. Unlike those of Ann Summers, only 30% of Beate Uhse sales are to women. "We are working on new concepts to bring more women into the shops, like including more lingerie," explains Ulrich Hulle, chief financial officer...