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...Chief of Protocol Selwa Roosevelt gave the Reagans Morris' book on her husband's grandfather, the start of a planned three-volume work. The Reagans enjoyed the book, and in 1983 close aides like Michael Deaver began an ultimately successful two-year courtship of the author. Morris will not write his book until Reagan leaves office, but his agent is already angling for a publisher. The price rumored for the Reagan chronicle: more than $2 million. INDIANS A Mankiller Takes Over...
...tale begins with an impasse. The man who is trying to write the life of the late Francis Chegwidden Cornish, a distinguished art collector and connoisseur, finds himself stymied. It is bad enough that he has turned up hints of fakery in Cornish's long and otherwise exemplary career. These suspicions, if proved and published, will offend the immensely rich and powerful Cornish family and sully the reputation of the Cornish Trust, one of Canada's most respectable financial institutions. Worse, the aspiring biographer must admit that he cannot determine the influences that molded his man. Research has led only...
...continues to write, spending up to six hours a day on a novel that will tie up some strings left dangling in his earlier books. He has no inclination to rest on the laurels that have increasingly come his way. "I'm 72," he says, "and I don't like to think that my powers are waning...
...legislation requires minute scrutiny, and the Ways and Means plan had many minor and major changes in the fine print. The proposal would keep the top annual contribution for an Individual Retirement Account at $2,000, but it would reduce a taxpayer's IRA write-off by $1 for every dollar the person puts into a 401(k) plan, another popular tax-deferred savings plan. The committee felt the Government could recoup revenue by limiting how much money taxpayers put into both plans at the same time...
Charitable contributions would remain fully deductible for taxpayers who itemize, but those who use the short income tax form would not be allowed to write off the first $100 of their total donations. The Ways and Means plan would curtail some forms of trusts, making it more difficult for well-off parents to avoid taxes on income earned from money that they have passed along to their children...