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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to Lance's irregular way of helping his relatives, the federal agencies said they found evidence of misleading and inaccurate bank record keeping, questionable loans to bank officers and friends, overstatements of bank assets and inadequate reserves for loan losses. They claimed that Lance inflated his net worth by up to $1,409,779 in applying for loans from his own banks and others. The investigators also found that Lance used an NBG airplane, which cost $223,180 to operate from 1975 through 1977, during which Lance and other bank officials flew on 1,373 trips...
Even nonrock enthusiasts may find The Band worth getting to know. During the course of a 16-year career, this group produced some uncommonly rich music. Their best work demonstrates a literary appreciation of American myth and a ravenous affection for American pop songs; jazz, folk, hillbilly, soul and country music are all part of The Band's mix. In The Last Waltz, the group performs most of its best-known numbers. At times its members share Winterland's stage with such past associates and current cronies as Bob Dylan, Ronnie Hawkins, Van Morrison and Emmylou Harris...
...stands well over $100 million, since Mellon's bequest to Yale forms the most systematic collection of British art, mainly 18th and early 19th century, in existence outside London's Tate Gallery. Mellon has thus in a few years given away buildings and works of art worth rather more than $200 million. Even granted the parlous state of the dollar, no other living American has committed himself to art patronage on this scale. (Paul Getty endowed his mock-Pompeian Getty Museum above Malibu, Calif., to the tune of a staggering $700 million, but Getty died...
...Yale made more sense." The center's first director, Jules Prown, chose as architect Louis Kahn, whose strong-thewed volumes and subtle sense of the interplay of light and material had already produced the best new museum building in America−the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, opened in 1972. Kahn accepted the job and designed a four-story box, dedicated to light: a building without gimmicks or stylistic narcissism, low-keyed but explicit, whose pale concrete, blond wood and natural linen wall coverings provided a strictly subordinate background to the paintings. (The architect never lived...
...Pittsburgh. Born on a farm in Ireland, Paul's grandfather, Thomas, broke away from both the homeland and the land itself to become a lawyer, judge, banker and father of eight children. In the post-Civil War era the Mellons gained control of most of what was worth owning in Pittsburgh, which was a fair part of what was worth owning in industrial America...