Entrepreneurs: The Greek for Go-Between

When the Republican Party needed an extra $500,000 in a hurry to help pay for President Nixon's Inauguration festivities, it turned to Boston Entrepreneur Thomas Anthony Pappas. He raised the money in nine days of hectic telephoning to other friends of the G.O.P. Then Tom Pappas dropped in on some old acquaintances. He visited Ike and Mamie Eisenhower at Walter Reed Hospital, chatted with Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, and with Secretary of State William Rogers went over the names of some candidates for the post of U.S. Ambassador to Greece....

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