Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, October 9, 1993 TAG: 9310090120
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The former junk-bond king has 60 master of business administration students on the edges of their seats at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a class he started this week on corporate finance.
"He made $550 million in one year. It blows your mind," gushed student Michael Seery.
Milken, 47, served two years at a minimum-security prison after pleading guilty in 1990 to manipulating stock prices. He must complete three years of community service and works at an after-school drug prevention program.
The former Drexel Burnham Lambert financier went to UCLA officials with the class idea soon after he got out of prison in January. At first, the school was wary, but decided the value of Milken's experience outweighed any liabilities, Associate Dean Carol Scott said.
\ Three decades after Gregory Peck won an Oscar for portraying Atticus Finch, a forthright lawyer who stands up against prejudice, the actor has found a real-life Finch in Florida.
Peck, who starred in the 1962 movie "To Kill a Mockingbird," wrote to State Attorney Harry Lee Coe after Coe won the conviction of two white men accused of setting a black tourist on fire.
"I could not help identifying with you, and thinking that in this case you have played the role of Atticus Finch in real life, taken on the challenge and won an important victory for all of us," Peck wrote.
In the movie, Finch eloquently represents a black man charged with raping a white woman. The man is nevertheless convicted by a racist jury and later shot to death while supposedly trying to escape.
"I was so struck with a certain similarity with the case I tried in the movie," Peck said Thursday.
\ Spuds MacKenzie, that party animal in the old Budweiser ads, died this spring, it was reported Thursday. The dog was really a she whose full name was Honey Tree Evil Eye. Evie, to owners Stan and Jackie Oles of suburban Chicago, was 10. Said Bud executive Bob Lachky: "We were crushed when we learned of Spuds' death." Like a beer can.
by CNB