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...Back in the early '50s, when Prudential Lines' Founder Stephen D. Stephanidis encountered financial troubles, Spyros Senior and some others bailed out their fellow Greek immigrant by taking a financial interest in the line. By 1960, Stephanidis had died unexpectedly, the others had sold out, and Skouras wound up as Prudential's sole owner. His son, bored with running a string of 75 New York-area theaters, decided to try his hand at directing the line...
...father did not have an easy time in New York. Unable to get a teaching post, he wound up working in an office. To this day, his heart is in Fürth. He has been back to visit twice, and two weeks ago wrote to the local newspaper to ask for clippings of stories about his son. Heinz, who soon became Henry, adapted much more easily. In Germany, he had been an average student. In Manhattan's George Washington High School, he became a straight-A pupil...
...immense, luminous eyes that make her unique, almost unearthly, like someone not born but drawn?perhaps by her old friend Salvador Dali, who calls her "a black moonchild, like Lilith. Her sex is not here," he insists, pointing to his groin, "but in the head, like a wound in the middle of the forehead." To Actress Shirley MacLaine she is "all turned in and vulnerable, a child with a highly energetic brain. From the neck up, she's 80." To Actor Roddy McDowall, "trying to describe Mia is like trying to describe dust in a shaft of sunlight. There...
...Michigan Avenue and leased it to Wolman. Soon after ground was broken in late 1965, however, Wolman found himself overextended in a number of other financial dealings. His troubles were aggravated when a faulty support caisson required the costly dismantling of part of the building's superstructure. Wolman wound up selling his interest in the skyscraper for a $5,000,000 loss in late 1966. He is currently involved in bankruptcy proceedings in an effort to salvage his interests, which include ownership of 52% of the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles...
Carrying signs and accompanied by drum and bugle corp bands, the marchers started out from East Cambridge at 9 a.m. Saturday. As they wound through the streets the parade picked up additional marchers. The march was organized by the Greater Boston Committee on the Transportation Crises and by the Cambridge City Council...