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Jones also sent a letter to long-time Beatles producer George Martin, but he said members have been reluctant to invite Yoko Ono, John Lennon's widow...
...ended up in the D.N.C.'s hard-money account. But in many cases there is a considerable gap between the dates on the call sheets and the eventual donations. For example, call sheets obtained by TIME show that on Feb. 6, 1996, Clinton was urged to contact Gail Zappa, widow of the musician Frank Zappa. Whether or not the President made the call, five months later she contributed $30,000 to the D.N.C., of which $20,000 was shifted into the hard account...
...former real estate saleswoman, widow of a judge and mother of a prosecutor, Mary Ann Downs had far more financial and legal acumen than most aging fraud victims. Even so, con artists had little trouble scamming her out of $74,000. Why? How? Her story is a classic study in what makes fraud against elderly people, especially women, one of the biggest growth industries in America. Con men are bilking the elderly out of $40 billion a year, by one FBI estimate...
...when the New York Times reported that N.A.A.C.P. chairman Myrlie Evers-Williams expected the delegates to consider modifying the organization's position on integration, the news of an impending controversy became self-fulfilling. Evers-Williams, widow of the murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers, maintains she was misquoted. "Any advocacy organization must be open to discussion," she says. "But I see no changes coming about. It is an organization that still believes in integration...
...romantic interest, she is selected as the transportee. After "wormholing" breathlessly through hyperspace, what she finds at the end of her journey is no little green men but a quasi-meta-physical Carl Saganish lesson (small wonder, since the movie was co-produced by the late Sagan and his widow, and is based on his novel...