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Victories were trumpeted whenever a rifle was discharged. The London press reported triumphs on the order of Salamis and Marathon. Proclamations and constitutions also were reported, issued by competing delegations of penniless and powerless clerks, who scuttled about the countryside in city clothes and called themselves governments...
...control an estimated 8,000 businesses and have a spending power of $1.5 billion. Many of them have been unable to re-create their old lives, however. Alfredo Perez, for example, went to law school in Havana, but after fleeing to Colombia, then to Puerto Rico, he arrived penniless and discouraged in Miami in 1967. The need for Cuban-trained lawyers in Miami being totally nonexistent, Perez finally got a job mowing lawns. He is the kind of man who likes to take an intellectual interest in his work. He enrolled in a course in agronomy at Broward Community College...
...Mike Douglas -not as an erstwhile politician, but as a self-promoter of his book about a liberal-leaning Vice President with eyes for the top job. "The real driving need to write The Canfield Decision was making a living," Spiro told Merv, claiming that he was left "totally penniless" after his 1973 legal problems and subsequent disbarment. In fact, had it not been for his old buddy Frank Sinatra, he said, "I don't think I could have survived that time." Sinatra made Agnew a "substantial" loan, and "at the height of my troubles, he called...
Died. The Duke of Leinster, 83, premier peer of Ireland, who in his youth squandered his claim to one of Britain's largest fortunes, went bankrupt three times and lived out his last days, according to his fourth wife, "distraught, depressed and utterly penniless"; in a cramped two-room London apartment...
...going through one of these cataclysms when Leonard Woolf decided that he wanted to marry her. It was one of several stern tests of his devotion. Leonard was a fringe Bloomsburyite, in Virginia's words "a penniless Jew," a former Colonial Service officer in Ceylon whose years in the jungle seemed to have purged him of the dilettantism that tainted her other admirers. She warned him that she was not physically attracted to him ("There are moments - when you kissed me the other day was one - when I feel no more than a rock"), but she realized that...