Word: butler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found liable, Deforges could be required to turn over the profits of all French and English editions of Bicyclette, estimated at about $16 million before taxes. Mon Dieu! With so much money at stake, even Rhett Butler might have given a damn...
...hero's alter ego, Bruce Wayne, is an eccentric young millionaire who lives alone on the outskirts of Gotham with only his butler Alfred for company. As a child, Wayne watched as his parents were murdered in cold blood, and he has since grown up in almost total isolation, traumatized by the incident...
...occasion: a parade in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, honoring the 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler last week. The host: Richard Girnt Butler, 71, leader of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations. The invited guests: young skinhead toughs whom Butler wants to recruit to his bigoted cause. A 21-year-old Californian identified himself as "Whiteman." At a press conference he defined the skinhead philosophy as "retaliation for all the years of being beaten down by other races." He went on to predict that "a new generation has to come. The skins are the next wave...
Despite Whiteman's fervor, Butler -- explaining that he did not want to risk exposing his followers to an "AIDS-infected" mob -- decided to call off his parade after local human-rights activists promised to bring in up to 3,000 protesters to stage an opposition march (1,200 showed up last Saturday). Butler had to settle for a diatribe-filled "skinhead seminar" attended by a pathetic audience of some 50 racists at his nearby compound in Hayden Lake...
...Butler and Scurry know as Sam Perry is really Richard Perry, a gambler who has twice been convicted on federal charges of sports bribery. In 1974 Perry was convicted in connection with a major New York betting scandal at Roosevelt and Yonkers raceways. He was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and fined $10,000. In 1984 Perry pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit sports bribery as part of the notorious Boston College point-shaving scheme. At the trial, recalls Edward McDonald, head of the Organized Crime Strike Force in Brooklyn, N.Y. Perry was referred to as Richie...