ENTERTAINMENT
February 9, 2012
The 45 t h California International Antiquarian Book Fair Where: Pasadena Convention Center, 300 East Green St., Pasadena. When: Friday, Feb. 10: 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 11: 11 am to 7 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 12: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission: A three-day pass may be purchased at the door Friday for $25. Tickets puchased Saturday or Sunday are $15 and include return entry throughout the remainder of the fair. Information: http://www.labookfair.com/index.php
NEWS
March 14, 1988 | ROBERT L. JACKSON, Times Staff Writer
In the late 1950s, Jimmy Swaggart was roaming around the back roads of Louisiana in a broken-down Chevrolet, earning about $40 a week from his preaching and gospel singing. He has come a long way since then. The controversial evangelist now heads a tax-exempt enterprise that ranks, by almost any measure, as one of the most successful of its kind. Jimmy Swaggart World Ministries and its Bible college boasted revenues of $150 million in 1987--more than $500,000 each working day.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 1, 1988 | ANDREA FORD, Times Staff Writer
So you want to grouse about paying almost a quarter for a postage stamp? Consider this: Newport Beach lawyer Michael T. Walsh paid $75,000 for one Thursday. And the picture on it isn't even right side up. The stamp was issued by the Iranian government in 1950 and still is glued to an envelope. It is, according to a stamp broker, the most expensive Iranian stamp ever sold, and it is thought to be one of only two of its kind still in existence.
SPORTS
March 16, 1988 | Associated Press
Sacramento Kings center Jawann Oldham needs surgery on his left knee and will be lost to the National Basketball Assn. team for the remainder of the season, a team physician said Tuesday. "I am recommending that an operation to rebuild the knee take place as soon as possible," Dr. Richard Marder said. "The earliest Jawann will be able to resume his career, assuming he undergoes the most thorough type of therapy, will be next January."
BUSINESS
June 16, 1996
As a lawyer and an estate planner, I generally read your columns with interest because the personal planning topics that you cover may affect me as an attorney or my clients. "Care in Setting Up Family Trusts Can Head Off Problems" (June 9) was no exception. One point, however. In the sidebar "Understanding Trusts," in the discussion of charitable remainder trusts, you state, "They'll get a charitable deduction for the full value of the stock . . . (subject to some tax limits)." The biggest "limit" most taxpayers will encounter is that they will not get a deduction for the "full value" of the contribution but, rather, for the present value of the charitable remainder interest.
BOOKS
July 18, 1993 | Daniel Akst
I always dreamed that my books would be sold right next to John Updike's. Unfortunately, I'm about to get my wish. The irony isn't pretty. For years I have read from remainder tables, satisfying two of my most enduring appetites--for books and for bargains--from the forlorn ranks of volumes left behind by those who pay retail. As a writer, one prowls these low-rent precincts torn between depression and glee. To take a break from scribbling, visit your local bookstore and find Cynthia Ozick, E.