Jones sometimes sent news clips.
The one at the top refers to Lloyd Rose. A talented and handsome woman, she was a minor recurring character in our mythology. I knew her at UNC-Charlotte. I think Wm P knew her (or knew of her anyway) through W, one of his mythical friends. The last I heard, she was doing movie reviews for some big newspaper on the East Coast. And I think that she wrote an episode of "Homicide Life on the Streets".
The other clip says that Cardinal stuff is being sold by the IRS to pay off 25,000 in back taxes. Apparently 40,000 was owed to other creditors. Jones, like many of us, had a morbid fascination in the decline of the company. I don't know who the fish-like character at the bottom is. Might have been M, one of the principals. I heard that he ended up working nights on a loading dock trying to pay off debts, while still trying to find customers during the day. I remember him wandering through the Moorehead Street building one day asking , "Does anyone know McGeorge Bundy?" M thought that Bundy could somehow advance our cause.
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Lloyd did a bit of freelancing for Cardinal. She later wrote reviews for the Washington Post and hit rarefied air when she published an article about Lawrence of Arabia in "The New Yorker." No clue where she is now. Wilkerson is a retired stock trader living in Richmond.
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