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...when you're dealing with broken things, you're also dealing in funny stories about how people broke their things. Like? "Some guy came in with a broken watch. Said he'd put it through the washer and dryer...
...over a four-year period starting in 1987. But consumers and the lending industry have already hit upon an alternative: the home-equity loan, which is secured by a house or condominium. Interest on such loans will remain deductible, within some limits. "You go out and buy a new washer and dryer and still get to deduct the interest because in effect you're paying for it with a home-mortgage loan," says Kinzie, the Chicago banker...
Robert O. Lynn '88, who had planned to use the washer Sunday afternoon, decided against it, saying, "I'm not putting my stuff in there...
Bill Gardner, 38, president of a Milwaukee electrical-supplies firm, bought a car for $45,000 in 1984, then spent $450,000 fitting it out with a telephone, a washer and dryer, two teak-finished bathrooms, a living room done in walnut and brass, and a Lenox china service for twelve. Business entertainment is given as one reason for these wonders. Playing with trains is the fuller explanation. If you are going to play, however, why not do things in a big way? In 1973 Entrepreneur Roy Thorpe, 50, from Fort Lauderdale, was talked into taking a steam locomotive excursion...
...chief cloak and bottle washer was and is Actress Rhea Perlman, whom he met when she visited him backstage in 1970. A few weeks later she moved in. "It wasn't impulse," DeVito insists. "It just made sense. I had an apartment, and she supported me." Perlman, a scrappy 5 ft. 1 in., co-stars as the lonely termagant Carla, a kind of female Louie DePalma, on NBC's Cheers; posed together, Carla and Louie could be figurines on the Grinch's wedding cake. But Rhea and Danny have made better luck. They have lived together for 16 years...